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way environmentalists and other liberals tend to see values as a distraction from the real issues environmental problems like global warming if environmentalists hope to become more than a special interest we must start framing our proposals around core american values and start seeing our own values as central to what motivates and guides our politics doing so is crucial if we are to build the political momentum a sustaining movement to pass and implement the legislation that will achieve action on global warming and other issues read the entire essay it represents an important turning point in progressive thinking about promoting narrow interest issues v s core values posted by dave johnson at 3 12 2005 01 31 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest square liberalism ibsen s enemy of the people the plays of henrik ibsen dominated european drama for half a century and to this day much of theatre can be thought of dialectically as anti ibsen james joyce in his teens was an ibsenist who taught himself dano norwegian in order to read the plays in the original and in the stories in dubliners to say nothing of some of his youthful works you can still see signs of ibsen s realism though without ibsen s reformist message according to kenneth rexroth the slang word square came from squarehead the seaman s ethnic slur for the relatively stodgy scandinavians among them and ibsen was the squarest person in the world for him right was right truth was truth and if there s a problem something should be done about it the enemy of the people was probably ibsen s squarest play doctor stockman a highly respected m d and community leader in a small norwegian town discovers that the mineral waters of the town s soon to be opened health spa have been made toxic by bacterial contamination he starts to get the word out and proposes a solution but as the play progresses his friends and allies including the moderate reformists and liberals turn against him one by one at the end of the play he stands alone having been officially declared an enemy of the people recently the dramatist christopher hampton retranslated the play from his introduction however sympathetic he feels for dr stockman s cause ibsen is too subtle and profound a dramatist not to know that there are few figures more infuriating than the man who is always right stockmann s sincerity naivety and courage co exist with an innocent vanity an inability to compromise and an indifference to the havoc caused in the life of his family and friends as well as his own by his dogged pursuit of principle hampton is wrong ibsen was a square and he wrote the play to show that doctor stockman was right and that his cowardly corrupt thuggish enemies were wrong everyone in town except stockman was willing to market a toxic health spa to sick people an enemy of the people is a square play partly for that reason it may not be ibsen s best play but the moral of the story is absolutely clear like a parson bowdlerizing shakespeare hampton felt the need to misrepresent ibsen in order to make him palatable to the cynical modern audience i have speculated elsewhere that we may now be living in a post ethical age i didn t say in so many words that i think that this is a bad thing but it is democrats and liberals have found it very difficult to make a strong moral statement to the voters and this is because the so called left has been dominated by a combination of shrewd careerist inside players and hedonistic personal liberationists preaching relativism it should have been possible to achieve tolerance and diversity without making moral relativism into an absolute principle but that s the strategy that ended up being chosen the outcome has been crippling there are square arguments for liberalism but in the world of today only the cynical rovian right can to appeal to squares note this is a cross post from my less political site idiocentrism com i m still in retirement posted by john emerson at 3 12 2005 11 30 00 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest framing vs fencing daily kos framing vs fencing a post lakoff analysis everybody go read there will be a test this week posted by dave johnson at 3 12 2005 09 42 00 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 3 10 2005 blow to small business creation i predict that the new bankruptcy bill will have a damping effect on the formation of small businesses and this will be one more blow to job creation this bill makes it just too much of a risk to borrow money to open a laundromat or buy a subway sandwich franchise i have a friend who is a dentist he has been hoping to one day open a practice with his wife also a dentist but that takes money hearing about the bankruptcy bill he said this might just clinch it that they won t be opening that private practice this is what got me thinking about the effect this could have on a national scale scaring people away from their dream of one day having their own independent business posted by dave johnson at 3 10 2005 03 41 00 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest gonna get smeared evangelical leaders swing influence behind effort to combat global warming first we ll see stories at newsmax gopusa and drudge then hear them repeated on limbaugh s radio show smearing each of these religious leaders and mocking them in a humiliating way then there will be a closed door meeting in the white house from which the leaders will emerge apologize in front of news cameras saying they made a terrible mistake that bush is a glorious leader and prophet a month later they will all be found dead of suicide with multiple gunshots to the back of the head and body news reports will say that liberal bloggers were responsible for the whole thing posted by dave johnson at 3 10 2005 11 42 00 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest radio that doesn t suck lives last week i wrote about mark morford s column on the overall suckiness of corporate radio all hail the death of radio i mentioned that i wrote him about kpig a local radio station that is definitely not corporate radio well apparently i wasn t alone in the impulse to tell him about radio that doesn t suck because this week he posted a kind of a mea culpa and now for some real radio in it he says i never really fully understood fully comprehended fully had crammed into my thick itunes drunk p2p dazzled skull before i decried the mad sad corporatization of the airwaves is just how many vibrant alternatives exist and then passes on the collective recommendations of his readers along with info on how to tune in via the net if possible thomas leavitt p s guess whose recommendation was number two on his list posted by thomas at 3 10 2005 01 00 00 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 3 09 2005 saddam capture another lie ex marine says public version of saddam capture fiction a former u s marine who participated in capturing ousted iraqi president saddam hussein said the public version of his capture was fabricated ex sgt nadim abou rabeh of lebanese descent was quoted in the saudi daily al medina wednesday as saying saddam was actually captured friday dec 12 2003 and not the day after as announced by the u s army i was among the 20 man unit including eight of arab descent who searched for saddam for three days in the area of dour near tikrit and we found him in a modest home in a small village and not in a hole as announced abou rabeh said we captured him after fierce resistance during which a marine of sudanese origin was killed he said he said saddam himself fired at them with a gun from the window of a room on the second floor then they shouted at him in arabic you have to surrender there is no point in resisting later on a military production team fabricated the film of saddam s capture in a hole which was in fact a deserted well abou rabeh said posted by dave johnson at 3 09 2005 08 35 00 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest if programmers were as smart as longshoremen bad attitudes if programmers were as smart as longshoremen i ve often said that if programmers were as smart as longshoremen they d have a contract as good as longshoremen they don t in part because they re proud of their weakness they re proud that they don t stoop to organizing nosiree these are libertarians who would not consider acting as a group that after all would hurt the super rich scumbags they work for and since everyone expects one day to be in the position of the exploiter they certainly don t want to restrict the exploiter s actions now even if they re currently the exploited through corrente posted by dave johnson at 3 09 2005 07 44 00 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 3 08 2005 do dems ban pro life convention speakers the subject of whether democrats ban pro life speakers at their conventions is going around again this originated after anti choice pennsylvania governor casey was not allowed to address the 1992 democratic national convention because he refused to endorse then governor clinton for president no more mister nice blog has a great post on the subject and he uses the magic words conventional wisdom kevin drum has recently written about it as have atrios and digby it so happens that the myth that democrats don t allow pro life speakers at their conventions came up at a dinner party at the home of some strongly christian friends just before last year s election these friends tend to be democratic voters but had been getting handouts and magazines at their church designed to persuade them to vote republican one thing my friends had heard repeatedly was particularly influential they were saying they were likely to vote for bush because democrats don t allow pro life people to speak at their conventions i also hear this repeated all the time and it has become conventional wisdom you probably know that the republicans usually add that republicans are the party of the big tent in fact you probably hear this repeated word for word because that s how these things work the democrats don t allow and republicans are party of big tent seems to be a powerful influential combination for persuading potential voters but i didn t realize just how powerful an effect these words had on people until that dinner party so i did some research here is the record pro life democrats speaking at the 2004 convention two members of democrats for life were among speakers at the party s convention rep jim turner of texas was speaking in the context of his role as ranking minority member of the homeland security committee rep jim langevin of rhode island introduced ron reagan also pro life who spoke in favor of embryonic stem cell research 2000 convention the catholic herald eight years after he was denied a forum at the democratic convention the late pennsylvania governor robert p casey was given a few moments in the national spotlight on the closing day of the democratic national convention in los angeles the governors two sons got the chance to make their fathers points about the sanctity of life with just a few sentences each the brothers two of eight siblings described their father as a proud pro life democrat who believed every life born and unborn is sacred that s why he was a democrat said robert casey jr invocation by cardinal roger mahony archbishop of los angeles at the democratic national convention los angeles monday august 14 2000 other catholic archbishops declined invitations to speak in 1984 1992 and 1996 i welcome you to the city of angels with all its vibrant religious ethnic and racial diversity i come to this great convening out of respect for our nation s democratic traditions i come as a pastor not a politician an advocate of values not candidates as you gathered your people into the land that was promised to them you called them to heed your voice and follow your commandments these commandments are at once simple and profound to love god above all else and to love our neighbor as ourselves we have been called to choose life and to serve the least of these in the span of just three weeks our nation s major political parties will have gathered at their conventions to select their candidates for the upcoming presidential campaign we pray tonight that your spirit will inspire all candidates regardless of party to embody in their words actions and policies values that protect all human life establish peace promote justice and uphold the common good for it is in you o god that we trust in you o god we trust that you will keep us ever committed to protect the life and well being of all people but especially unborn children the sick and the elderly those on skid row and those on death row we make our prayer in your name amen 1996 democratic convention congressman tony hall of ohio mr chairman and fellow democrats i have the high honor of speaking to you today about an issue that s very dear to my heart the needs of the vulnerable in our nation the poor the sick the elderly the children and the unborn the moral test of government hubert humphrey said is how that government treats those that are in the dawn of life the children those who are in the twilight of life the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life the sick i m a pro life democrat i m one of about 40 democrats in the congress and many of us have felt left out by our party s position on abortion for many years but this year is different for the first time the democratic party has included in our platform a conscience clause on this divisive issue it says the democratic party therefore recognizes that individual members have a right to abide by their conscience on this difficult issue and are welcome participants at every level of the party the democratic party is indeed the party of true inclusions and it is the party where every american can feel welcome and at home we democrats believe that our government and our whole society will be judged on how we treat the least of these among us so we renew our pledge to be a voice for the voiceless and we reaffirm our commitment to the principle that public service is not an end in itself but rather a means to serve others with god s help let us make the united states the compassionate and tolerant nation it was established to be thank you very much so the fact is that the democratic party conventions have had so called pro life speakers including the 2000 invocation by a catholic archbishop who is obviously against abortion talking about protecting unborn children and the fact remains that gov casey did refuse to endorse the nominee that year add to this that his kids were allowed to give a pro life speech at the next convention democrats simply do not ban pro life speakers but they do ban speakers who refuse to endorse the nominee as 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