Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Still sympathizing?
Katha Pollitt has a Nation column that whitewashes Kerry’s comments about Mary Cheney. For the moment let us disregard whether it is appropriate to sight your opponent’s children as a debating point. Pollitt discusses the disingenuous Conservative action of comparing Kerry to McCarthy, and then drops this line.
“Let's see: McCarthy destroyed lives with dubious accusations of secret Communist affiliations, something he regarded as evil.”
Communism was evil. Secret Communist organizations funded and directed by the Kremlin were also evil. How is that possibly a controversial statement? The fact that McCarthy was a nut does not change Communism into a good thing. Communism was an extraordinary combination of bad economics and tyrannical politics that left 100,000,000 dead.
Do you wonder why the Left is not a serious force in American politics?
“Let's see: McCarthy destroyed lives with dubious accusations of secret Communist affiliations, something he regarded as evil.”
Communism was evil. Secret Communist organizations funded and directed by the Kremlin were also evil. How is that possibly a controversial statement? The fact that McCarthy was a nut does not change Communism into a good thing. Communism was an extraordinary combination of bad economics and tyrannical politics that left 100,000,000 dead.
Do you wonder why the Left is not a serious force in American politics?
