Reply #53: You Maintain Your Ground Well, Ma'am, And Make A Sensible Point

[The Magistrate]

The class war is the essential element of all politics, and a large proportion of even the most retrograde of Paul's supporters by rights ought to be on our side of it. The enemy understands this perfectly well; it is the leading reason why 'liberal elite', and the 'latte sipping, GQ reading, etc.' personification of 'the liberal' looms so large in rightist iconography. These things are recognition by the opinion leaders of the right that at bottom most of the working class supporters of rightist politicians feel a visceral animadversion to bosses and wealth and the whole 'upper crust' the right is a political engine to protect and preserve and aggrandize against the best interests of working people. Accordingly, they work very hard to get their working class followers to take 'liberals' as the real face of upper class dominance, to shift this innate, and largely inchoate anger away from the genuine plutocracy that exploits their labor, and discards them like so many juiced oranges once they have had all they can extract.

On the more particular question of Rep. Kucinich's recent overtures to Paul, there are two elements worth noting here.

First, given as you say that neither of these men is ever going to come near the Presidency, the matter is not of much real signifigance, and the only real importance it has is as a symbolic gesture of approach from the left to a constituency that we generally disparrage, since we know its denizens generally hate and despise us. It is not as new an idea as many suppose, since a number on the right of this divide have for some years viewed extreme left circles as offering a promising recruiting ground for a libertarian-oriented and isolationist rightist movement, that is frequently tinged with Anti-Semitism: people like Justin Raimondo come to mind as examples.

Second, here locally, people are certainly going to make hay of this development. The tactic of disparraging public figures for 'impure associations' is much too deeply ingrained here, and far too frequently employed by partisans of Rep. Kucinich, for it to be expected that supporters of candidates who have been frequently attacked on this line not to pounce with some glee on the opportunity Rep. Kucinich was so kind as to provide them.