File spoon-archives/marxism-intro.archive/marxism-intro_2004/marxism-intro.0410, message 50


From: scouter-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: Re: M-INTRO: Re: Facts and debates (REDHEAD'S)
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 20:07:14 -0600


It's really hard to argue with bobcat, especially when he brings the logic
of UHF into the equation...couldn't have said it better myself


----- Original Message ----- 
From: <bobcat-AT-pseud.pseud>
To: <marxism-intro-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: M-INTRO: Re: Facts and debates (REDHEAD'S)


> Hidden agendas... conspiracy theories... lesbian Nazi hookers abducted by
> UFOs and forced into weight loss programs (anyone who catches the movie
> reference wins a point!)... all to be read in next week's edition of the
> Enquirer!
>
> So, how do we expect anything but hidden agendas from our candidates?
That
> statement just drips with the pessimism that once caused Thomas Hobbes to
> proclaim that man is inherently evil and can only be expected to act as
> such.
>
> Maybe I'm one of those naïve people that Redhead is referring to, but I
just
> don't buy into the hidden agenda hype too much.  I may be just naïve
enough
> to believe that the vast majority of the human race is out there doing the
> best they know how.  Sure, people are sometimes misinformed, confused, or
> inept, but I think that few people are out to willingly, knowingly, and
> maliciously exploit his fellow countrymen.
>
> Now, unless we place politicians in a sub-human or extra-human
> classification, can we not assume that most of them are generally good
> people too?  I know lots of lawyers and politicians, and I can vouch for
the
> humanity of most of them.  Sure, there are exceptions to this rule, but I
> believe that it is foolish to be quite so paranoid as some Americans are
> today.
>
> I've said before that I don't like Bush.  However, I don't think he had
any
> "ulterior" motives in going into Iraq.  I personally think that he wasn't
> after oil, revenge, or a gold star on his forehead. I think that he really
> believed what he told us about WMD and terrorism and the like.  To me, if
> he's guilty of anything than it is ineptitude, not malice.
>

>


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