Craig,
You can't consistently condemn something as left wing fluff without actually considering the ink on the page. If you do that, and refuse to listen to your detractors, then there really is no hope for you.
Cheers,
Graham.
Unfortunately, Graham, I fear that Craig and the rest of the radical-right movement are already too far under the control of those who insist that they "...drink the kool-aid". From Wikipedia:
"
Drinking the Kool-Aid" is a phrase and metaphor, used in the
United States and
Canada, that means to become a firm believer in something, to accept an argument or philosophy wholeheartedly or blindly without critical examination.
The term originated with the November 1978
Jonestown Massacre,<SUP id=cite_ref-0 class=reference>
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[2]</SUP> where members of the
Peoples Temple were said to have committed suicide by drinking
Kool-Aid laced with
cyanide.<SUP id=cite_ref-2 class=reference>
[3]</SUP>"
They have chosen to be closed minded, to listen only to the rhetoric of the radical conservative movement, which no more represents the mainstream citizen of the U.S.A. than does the radical liberal contingency. Their refusal to see the logic in moderation leaves them firmly in that group to whom I refer as "...none so blind as those who will not see".
He/they are so firmly bound by their idealogical fallacies that they cannot use the power of observation to give fair consideration to anyone else's point of view. They are in essence a "closed loop", into which is allowed only the information that already coincides with their pre-conceived notions.
They have done this to themselves, and, sadly, there really is no hope for them.
Cheers from Doug!!
