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2010-04-05 Home Front: Politix

Naomi Wolf Thinks the Tea Parties Help Fight Fascism -- Is She Onto Something or in Fantasy Land

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Posted by tipper 2010-04-05 04:22|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 NW's closing two paras are quite interesting.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-04-05 07:11|| 2010-04-05 07:11|| Front Page Top

#2 She's not on our side--she doesn't strike me as a conservative, or someone on the way to becoming conservative, or someone who could be brought 'round to conservatism with a little persuasion. However, she is intelligent enough to realize that the DNC/MSNBC?NYT propaganda line is wrong, the Tea Party movement isn't Ernst Rohm and the Brownshirts--and that Obama-worship is fast going out of style and the Dems are heading for a meltdown. Is this Naomi positioning herself to be on the right side of a trend, or something deeper? We'll see.

Posted by Mike 2010-04-05 09:01|| 2010-04-05 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 The woman is reverting to her flower-child San Francisco roots. In her post-Gore campaign phase, she put on about 50lbs, separated from her husband and has spent much of her time traveling around college campuses inveighing against hookups and promoting romance. NTTAWWT, but I don't think she's now, or has ever been, a serious student of politics...

Posted by lex 2010-04-05 11:47|| 2010-04-05 11:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Ms. Wolf is a puzzling person in a lot of ways, but she does have a point about power and corruption. She's a little late to that particular party, we conservatives having made that point repeatedly these last few decades, but better late than never.

There should be bright lines in American political activity. We should not hold American citizens (e.g., Jose Padilla) in military detention. If they're traitors, charge them and try them in a civilian court. There is indeed a difference between listening to a telephone conversation between two American citizens and a conversation between two foreigners: we can eavesdrop without a warrant on the latter but not the former.

If Ms. Wolf has now recognized that the bright lines are being obliterated by people on both sides of the aisle, some well-meaning and some decidedly not, then welcome, Ms. Wolf, we have a lot to discuss.

Posted by Steve White 2010-04-05 14:04|| 2010-04-05 14:04|| Front Page Top

#5 The colossal flameout that was Barry may have the same effect on the left that Bush's many failures has had on the right.

The real driver of a political realignment though should be economic insecurity, not civil liberties fears. Note that Naomi's expressed concern is that muslims may be persecuted, not that anyone's guns will be taken away.

Focus on mass underemployment (ca. 20% and not declining), our fiscal implosion and the widespread, and utterly correct, impression that Big Finance has captured the regulatory apparatus (not to mention the legislative and executive branches), and you have the makings of a realignment in this country.

The issue isn't left-right, or state vs individual. It's the failure of our betters to protect us from the devastation wrought by people who specialize in heads-we-win, tails-you-lose arbitraging of the state and the public treasury.

Posted by lex 2010-04-05 14:31|| 2010-04-05 14:31|| Front Page Top

#6 She is nuts and calling everyone nazi's or fascists. It's kind of sad.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-04-05 17:22|| 2010-04-05 17:22|| Front Page Top

#7 IIRC about 8-9 years ago her marriage fell apart, she went from being gorgeous to being fat and rather dumpy, and her "beauty myth" well ran dry with no one paying much attention to her books or lectures. Kinda sad, indeed.

Posted by lex 2010-04-05 18:22|| 2010-04-05 18:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Ya don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Right, Naomi?

Posted by tu3031 2010-04-05 19:24|| 2010-04-05 19:24|| Front Page Top

#9 lex

> impression that Big Finance has captured the regulatory apparatus (not to mention the legislative and executive branches)

You got it the wrong way around. More Debt = More Tax.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-04-05 21:33|| 2010-04-05 21:33|| Front Page Top

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