[quote=SK in CV][quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
As far as conservatives and media and think tanks, that’s arrant nonsense. The breadth and depth of such organizations and agencies spans a wide ideological divide and it’s quite easy to find as many foaming-at-the-mouth Leftist groups as Rightist groups. [/quote]
I have to take a little exception to this. If you had limited the argument to conservatives and liberals, I wouldn’t mention it. But leftists in the media? I’ll acknowledge definitions of those terms have changed over the years, but I still think of the left/right spectrum as being socialism on the left and capitalism on the right. I can think of one two media types that are clearly on the left, but only one of them foaming at the mouth. And a whole lot on the right, despite the fact that many of them don’t really know what the socialism that they assail really is.[/quote]
SK: If we’re being correct in our definitions, then Left would include Communism as well as Socialism (considered by Marxist/Leninists to be a stepping-stone on the path to true Communism), and there are more than a few die-hard Communists in both the media and in think tanks. As far as the latter goes: There are think tanks and foundations that advance the agendas of both the Hard Left and the Hard Right and they’re not skewed overly Right or overly Left in terms of number or influence.
As to assailing “Socialism”, per Hannity, Limbaugh, O’Reilly, et al: I couldn’t agree more. I don’t subscribe, and never have, to the “Kenyan Muslim Socialist” archetype ascribed to Obama, preferring instead to view him as an over-educated urban liberal who believes unwaveringly in the power of Big Government to solve all ills. My problem with this is that, at some point, this worldview collides with personal liberty and thus we find ourselves where we are now.
