12-04-2009, 04:30 AM
Peter Lemkin Wrote:Myra Bronstein Wrote::ridinghorse:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/4/7/1...0?new=true
Myra, that's a very good piece you posted! But you used the 'c' word.....most recoil from it in horror, reflexively. The term deomocratic socialism might be (slightly) more acceptable - or just socialism. It was this that DU moved to their dungeon!? To print that in a real paper paper you'd have to go the Socialist Worker, or some such. Even a university student paper wouldn't print that these days. Maybe in the 70s, but today after the War on just-about-everything....... Thank goodness for the Internet. If they ever turn it off say bye-bye.
I've tried making points both ways at different time with different audiences Peter. Sometimes I'll use the words I feel are apt, for example refer to Bush as a "fascist"--and much of "government" and our form of government as "fascism." And I'll use the "C" word. Other times I'll see if euphemisms, like a spoon full of sugar, help the medicine go down.
I've come full circle. I don't think any amount of soft peddling will make the truth more palatable, at least to Americans--most of whom have the emotional maturity of four year olds. They're so terrified of the truth that they might as well be holding their ears and squeezing their eyes shut. Hear no evil; see no evil; speak no evil.
Given that fact I see no point in speaking in cloaked terms about harsh facts. Either someone has the courage and open mindedness to let facts in or they don't. I don't have patience for the ones who don't.