 | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —David Koudys
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| | | In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote: snip (...) That Mike P--he's got lotsa stuff worth coveting! I think, for most aspects of life, there is this 'pendulum motion'Dark ages to 'enlightnement', from '50's nuclear family to '60's 'free (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —John Neal
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| | | | (...) I would analyze the "swing to the right" in the US a little differently. We have been moving very left in about all ways for the past decade, and now that things are heading back to the right, the Left is crying about the departure. We are (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —David Koudys
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| | | | | (...) Beyond the current political issues, do we agree on the base axiom that there is a 'pendulum motion' in the course of events--in the physical world, we could look to nature, in which, when the rabbit population increases, the 'predators of (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) I would suggest that, based on anything visible in the past few elections, it's hard to say that the population is moving to the Right. The 2000 election (with very high turnout) showed a Centrist tend with a split straight down the middle (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) I'm not sure I agree that it's fact. Putting aside the false one dimensionality that you use to measure with, that is. I would assert that the Fox/Limbaugh/Moral Majority axis has gotten better at articulating their views in the media of late (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Hmm. That's a good point, except for the meta-fact that all arguments inconsistent with mine are summarily fallacious. (...) Interesting. I'd submit that "betterness" can be assessed in terms of which group is more effective at implementing (...) (21 years ago, 8-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —Larry Pieniazek
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| | | | (...) c /mine/Lar's/ and we're in agreement. (...) That's precisely what I'm driving at! (...) Perhaps currently they are noisier yes and more annoying, but more controlling? Besides that runs counter to my argument, discourse apparent control (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) Ahem. Now listen, I do not watch television (1), and certainly not network news, much less Fox (I don't even have cable). But I'd say this about Fox: at least they admit that they are biased towards the right. The big three and CNN (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: Remember the Axis of Evil? [may offend] —Dave Schuler
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| | | | (...) Lately? It can be fairly said that, in many ways, the South and its Conservative (by today's yardstick) agenda have won the Civil War. Quasi-covert institutionalized racism and rampant corporate cronyism are hardly the hallmarks of modern (...) (21 years ago, 9-Dec-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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