Reply #20: What terms would you like to use?

[eallen]

I just finished Jonathon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven. Good read -- I highly recommend it. I get most of my news on the web, but occassionally watch McNeil-Lehr.

The two issues that are most important to me right now are (1) the threat to civil liberties from the ascendance of the radical right, and (2) the economic risk from Bush's borrow-and-spend policies, which I think is greater than most people realize.

I think you give Limbaugh too much credit. "Marxist" was in broad use before he was born. Unlike Limbaugh, I use the term much closer to how Marxists themselves use it, e.g., I recognize that liberals, in the traditional sense, favor capitalism. (I also recognize that Marx had a much better understanding of capitalism than most of those today who use his name only as a perjorative. Marx was quite a perceptive fellow. But that's a somewhat different issue.)