[T]he civic engagement and participation, as demonstrated by the Tea Party movement, seem to be very much like that which the communitarians (Michael Sandel and Michael Walzer) and the social-capital scholars (like Robert Putnam)—not to mention other high-minded and good-hearted men and women of the left—have for decades been calling for.Where "civic engagement and participation" equal: shouting down elected representatives, laughing at sick people, milling around waving illiterate signs & spouting insanely delusional conspiracy theories, making Hitler & Stalin analogies about health care, etc. Not the participation that too many of the left have been calling for, even w/ ideologies & demographics changed.
Monday, January 11, 2010
Keep It Civic!
A contrarian (We'll assume, as there's really no other explanation for this sort of thing.) jumps on the tea wagon. We've haven't the time, energy, desire, or inclination to pick over it at length (There's telebision to be watched.) but we were given pause by this:
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Thank you for the Atlantic link. Every time you think you've just discovered something new and unusual, it turns out that someone else has got there before you!!
At least it wasn't McArdle!
Reading the article you link - I am struck by how suddenly, since January 20, 2009, the media chastises us for the unfairness of characterizing uprising citizens as ignorant rabble - and makes such efforts to point our that these are such good-hearted people, and that those who call them ignorant are just a bunch of intellectually elite meanies.
That sure didn't seem to be an issue just a couple years ago in the coverage over Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war marches, etc.etc.etc.
America doesn’t really have a class system
EVERYONE loves McDonalds!
Euro-Editor Responds:
Considering I lived in Paris for more than a yr. & never knew about the passages (not that I was big on shopping at that age) it's a wonder that anyone from The Atlantic found them. And weren't you first?
As to this item, in December Jonah G. typed almost exactly the same "Big business: Not the friend of the 'free market'" line (From the Hoover Institution, no doubt) that Mr. Varadarajan spews in his penultimate paragraph.
Sadly amusing.
Everyone in France loves Mickey D. too!
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