Loyal Resistance

Proud to be a Liberal. The Republican Party has succeeded in demonizing the word Liberal which actually means: "Not limited to or by established traditional, orthodox or authoritarian attitudes, views or dogmas; free from bigotry, favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded" -the American Heritage dictionary-. These are exactly my convictions, so what the hell are they talking about ? :)

Sunday, July 01, 2007

Uncle Ronald

clipped from www.thenation.com

Michael Moore's Sicko

by CHRISTOPHER HAYES

[from the July 16, 2007 issue]

Moore takes a few moments for a brief history lesson. How, he asks, did we get here? And it's in this time warp that we encounter the Gipper. This is not Gipper the Governor or Gipper the President or even Gipper the B-list actor. This is Gipper, silver-tongued shill for the interests of capital.

As chronicled in Thomas Evans's The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years and the Untold Story of His Conversion to Conservatism, Reagan was employed by GE first as a spokesman and later as a kind of employer-to-employee ambassador.

an obscure PR guru named Lemuel Boulware hatched the idea of using the emerging techniques of public relations to turn factory-line workers against their own unions. Reagan would be the vessel for this message,