Reminds me of a David Brooks article fantasizing about how the left will react when Iraq totally stabilizes
My third guess is that the Bush haters will grow more vociferous as their numbers shrink. Even progress in Iraq will not dampen their anger, because as many people have noted, hatred of Bush and his corporate cronies is all that is left of their leftism. And this hatred is tribal, not ideological. And so they will still have their rallies, their alternative weeklies, and their Gore Vidal polemics. They will still have a huge influence over the Democratic party, perhaps even determining its next presidential nominee. But they will seem increasingly unattractive to most moderate and even many normally Democratic voters who never really adopted outrage as their dominant public emotion.
Nonetheless, I didn't expect a year after liberation, hostile militias would be taking over cities or that it wouldn't be safe to walk around Baghdad. Most of all, I misunderstood how normal Iraqis would react to our occupation. I knew they'd resent us. But
Shout-out to the blowback podcast for mentioning these, liberals love just making shit up and fantasizing how mad the left will be when it's proven true
That first article is amazing, a true masterpiece. It's mere existence is an encapsulation of everything wrong with Capitalism. If the system worked even a tenth like they claim it does David Brooks would have come to two ends 1) Honorably killing himself for his failures or 2) Cleaning toilets at some fast food chain in Florida with his tongue.
Yeah, it's crazy that you can be completely wrong about extremely important topics, and 20 years later everyone who accurately predicted how things would play out is still a crackpot and you're still a reasonable adult expert.
Reminds me of a David Brooks article fantasizing about how the left will react when Iraq totally stabilizes
And later he's saying
Shout-out to the blowback podcast for mentioning these, liberals love just making shit up and fantasizing how mad the left will be when it's proven true
Op-ed writers love to be wrong about everything all the time.
That's their job, and they do it well
That first article is amazing, a true masterpiece. It's mere existence is an encapsulation of everything wrong with Capitalism. If the system worked even a tenth like they claim it does David Brooks would have come to two ends 1) Honorably killing himself for his failures or 2) Cleaning toilets at some fast food chain in Florida with his tongue.
Yeah, it's crazy that you can be completely wrong about extremely important topics, and 20 years later everyone who accurately predicted how things would play out is still a crackpot and you're still a reasonable adult expert.