George Rebane
- open letter to the President
- interview with Dr Anna
- [update] Glenn Beck special
After Massachusetts, the leftwing of the progressive movement is exhorting President Obama to do better in 2010 lest we witness “the re-emergence of a vicious, feudal corporatism.” It is instructive for all, especially those not wedded to socialism, to read the open letter to the President on truthout.org, one of the country’s most progressive websites.
The letter summarizes a litany of long simmering complaints from the far left about Obama’s performance, and a frustration that “Democrats are anything but limp windsocks, pointing whichever way the wind blows.” Here the progressives again make it clear that they are not intrinsically part of any established political philosophy in America, but an independent and extreme ideology which declares that “we are ready to take this country in a fundamentally new direction."
Progressives are now angry and want to see some results. They are demanding of Obama that “You are going to have to put them down – with true progressive action, not the frail rhetoric of appeasement.” Any student of 20th century history is, of course, familiar with the nature of “true progressive action” (see update below).
This will indeed be the most interesting year yet. The progressives are telling us all to stand by for ram.
Today at my Thursday Rotary lunch meeting I was intercepted by Dr. Anna Haynes, one of Nevada County’s voices from the left, and a tireless worker in the vineyards of anthropogenic global warming. As an identified and targeted AGW skeptic, she paid me the honor of questioning me on my sources for reliable reporting on climate change. I answered her questions and we concluded another encounter that was pretty much like the two previous ones we have had – civil and colorless. She left and I got back to my meeting.
For those not familiar with Anna, she runs NC Voices, an excellent information and access website that updates and headlines Nevada County’s information sources which include newspapers, radio stations, county/city governments, and local bloggers. She does a workmanlike job maintaining that site in addition to writing her own NC Focus blog.
Russ Steele (NC Media Watch) and RR appear to be her favorite foils. Both of our blogs are consigned to the off-page extreme right column that was formerly labeled ‘Read with care’, and has now been upgraded to ‘Climate Contrarians’. If you live in the county, I recommend Anna’s labor of love to you. It’s a good way to start your daily surfing of the local scene. (BTW, RR pays homage to her work by featuring both NC Voices and NC Focus links in its right hand panel.)
In the interval, we may be certain that the information I gave her will be put to good use.
[update] Tomorrow 22jan10 at 2pm PST Glenn Beck on Fox News is airing a special that illustrates the denied history of "true progressive action" taken to its logical conclusion. It's worth turning on your DVR so that you can see and show it more than once. Fasten your seatbelt.
We post-WW2 immigrants from Europe were blown away by how little of the war's history was known by or taught to Americans. When we told the stories of what really happened, people stared in disbelief and walked away. It couldn't be so because everyone knew Hitler was the biggest, baddest, and the only monster that had walked the earth. Pointing out that Adolph was a third rate killer and quoting facts to the contrary (and this was even before the Cultural Revolution) was beyond the ability to handle by people who had been carefully taught. Things have slowly been coming to light, but then only to people who read and think. Perhaps as adults we are now ready to take a giant step in understanding our country's tilt during the last forty years or so.
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