Comments on: Dick Cheney Still Does Not Understand How To Prevent Terrorist Attacks http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2009/03/15/dick-cheney-still-does-not-understand-how-to-prevent-terrorist-attacks/ Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:41:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Eclectic Radical http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2009/03/15/dick-cheney-still-does-not-understand-how-to-prevent-terrorist-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-213300 Eclectic Radical Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:33:08 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=7496#comment-213300 I am not willing to define the Republican Party, Dick Cheney, or even the corporate criminals who are my favorite target of invective as 'evil.' They are 'privileged', and they have a significant belief in the rightness of their 'privilege', and their 'privileged class' is certainly open to a diverse membership... provided that membership thinks the right way and meets the property qualification. I understand the view that neoconservatives have of government. It is rather simple: our privilege is rightly ours, we should be free to exercise our privilege as we see fit, and what is good for us is ultimately good for everyone because we are the ones who <strong>matter</strong>. This political theory goes back to George Clinton and Thomas Jefferson, and before them to the Senatorial class of the Roman Republic. The argument is always based on shared tradition and values, which the elites claim to be defending against dangerous radicals seeking to overthrow the order. I think, sadly, many of them believe it. They believe their privileges to be God-given and they believe their sense of privilege to be entirely compatible with the fairy-tale, idealized vision of freedom and democracy they advocate. I am not willing to define the Republican Party, Dick Cheney, or even the corporate criminals who are my favorite target of invective as ‘evil.’ They are ‘privileged’, and they have a significant belief in the rightness of their ‘privilege’, and their ‘privileged class’ is certainly open to a diverse membership… provided that membership thinks the right way and meets the property qualification.

I understand the view that neoconservatives have of government. It is rather simple: our privilege is rightly ours, we should be free to exercise our privilege as we see fit, and what is good for us is ultimately good for everyone because we are the ones who matter. This political theory goes back to George Clinton and Thomas Jefferson, and before them to the Senatorial class of the Roman Republic. The argument is always based on shared tradition and values, which the elites claim to be defending against dangerous radicals seeking to overthrow the order.

I think, sadly, many of them believe it. They believe their privileges to be God-given and they believe their sense of privilege to be entirely compatible with the fairy-tale, idealized vision of freedom and democracy they advocate.

]]> By: nomoreGOP http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2009/03/15/dick-cheney-still-does-not-understand-how-to-prevent-terrorist-attacks/comment-page-1/#comment-213295 nomoreGOP Mon, 16 Mar 2009 23:11:03 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=7496#comment-213295 Cheney = evil. At the VERY VERY LEAST that man should be in jail. Period. The whole Halliburton/KBR situation is so blatantly a conflict of interest it is disgusting. Cheney = evil.

At the VERY VERY LEAST that man should be in jail. Period.

The whole Halliburton/KBR situation is so blatantly a conflict of interest it is disgusting.

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