Ladies and Gentlemen: The "Regressive Left"

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6. As one who has watched this obsessive labeling of the "left" as "2 legs bad" I worry about you.

I think the arguments can be made without labeling anyone who questions authority as summarily misguided.

How many putsches do you intend to have here? Until DU no longer asks questions of the dominant paradigm?

You have the right to ask whether someone else's POV is based on facts and whether opinion can be supported by them. Last time I looked so do all the rest of us. Except as stated in the TOS there remains quite a range of issues which may be argued and discussed. As far as I know this morning CP is not yet a propaganda organ of the Russian Government.

It has been obvious for some time now that the situation in Ukraine is only slightly less complicated than that in Syria, and that a number of players have been steering public perception and debate about who did what to whom and who is behind each move or atrocity. Putin certainly wants an empire with buffers. The neo-cons in our government, both Republican and Democrat, want a holy war on the retrograde Russian surrogates, and one might add nearly anyone else they seem to feel like bombing.

There are plenty of reasons to ask who is behind the scenes manipulating information. I wonder just how many paid shills are dumping the neo-con POV here? When I see such urgently emphatic labeling I start to feel like I may know. That doesn't make me right, or necessarily accurate. It could also be collateral damage from one more disinformation campaign distorting the free exchange of ideas and opinion, could it not?