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| Source | Dave Anderson |
| Date | 01/09/25/01:59 |
| The Left Responds: Fear and Hope
By Ben Ehrenreich LA Weekly Writer MarCUS Raskin is a co-founder of the Institute for Policy Studies, a left-wing think tank, and has written extensively about the national-security state: If there is something like a declaration of war, what this does is change dissent and difference into conspiracy and sedition in the minds of those who are running the war. We have to make clear that we’re not standing against the people who died, but are standing with them. There is a way of making clear that those who did this will be punished, but it’s also got to be clear that the U.S. should look at the way it’s lived in the world for the last couple generations. If the left begins to take very strong positions on this, people in leadership positions will find themselves in trouble. There’s no question about that. The question is if people will be willing to put themselves at risk in that way.... |
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