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2005-09-04 Home Front: Culture Wars

NYT Columnist Can't Handle It Anymore; Thinks Everybody Else Is The Same Way

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Posted by Anonymoose 2005-09-04 20:25|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Anonymoose, your comments are much better than the article. Thanks. Hope you're right.

Posted by RWV 2005-09-04 21:18|| 2005-09-04 21:18|| Front Page Top

#2 My analysis is somewhat different. The so called progressives are afraid of change primarily because they see change being mostly for the worse. This thinking stems from their own personal life experience of receiving money they didn't earn (whether inherited or welfare) and lacking the skills or ability to improve their life. They see changes in their own lives resulting in things getting progressively worse and extrapolate this to the world at large.

Posted by phil_b 2005-09-04 22:12|| 2005-09-04 22:12|| Front Page Top

#3 David Brooks is the conservative columnist for the New York Times. He used to write for the Weekly Standard, and before that, for the WSJ Op-Ed page. This column accuses the Bush administration of being incompetent, and suggests that the electorate could start electing liberals again into office. I suppose we'll find out in 2006.

I do find his accusation that the Federal government is failing to "protect the weak" kind of weird, though. Rescue work isn't like flipping a light switch. The city of New Orleans is under water. Recovery is going to be a huge undertaking. No quick solutions here. My feeling is that he's been spending too much time talking to liberals at his new job, and is now in the process of trying become as liberal as Frank Rich and Nick Kristof.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2005-09-04 23:23|| http://timurileng.blogspot.com]">[http://timurileng.blogspot.com] 2005-09-04 23:23|| Front Page Top

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