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by Justin Raimondo

06/22/07

Back in the 1950s, you’ll remember, it was ‘The end of ideology,’ and in the 1990s, just after the final death throes of the old Soviet Union, it was ‘the end of history.’ Today, we have The End of Dissent. Dissent — against what? Against the bipartisan consensus in favor of Empire, against the neoconservative foreign policy program of perpetual war, against the rise of Napoleonic versions of both ‘liberalism’ and conservatism. On the left, the ‘out now’ anti-interventionism of Kucinich has been marginalized by the three Democratic ‘majors’ — Hillary, Obama, and Edwards — who, all three of them, are just as hawkish as any neocon when it comes to Iran. On the right, the thoroughly neoconized, Rush Limbaugh-Sean Hannity- National Review axis of pro-war dead-enders are determined to take the GOP down with them, although it remains to be seen how many party leaders and activists will take to this lemming-like behavior...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11176


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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