Sunday, May 14, 2006

coalition of the fed up?

thomas eddlem argues for a left-right coalition in his antiwar.com piece:

The issues the Right and Left are already working together on are related to the Constitution: (1) Exposing the Bush administration's policy to eliminate the right to trial, as in the case of Jose Padilla, (2) Stopping the Bush practice and advocacy of torture, (3) Ending the administration's unnecessary Iraq War, (4) Eliminating unconstitutional, warrantless wiretapping, and the most objectionable parts of the PATRIOT Act, (5) Stopping multilateral trade agreements such as CAFTA, renewal of the WTO, and the upcoming Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

In (1)-(4) it is a civil liberties left/libertarian right coalition at issue. but (5) seems like it is based on a newer (potential?) coalition between the anti-globalization left and the anti-globalization right. while libertarians and neoliberals tend to agree on the benefits of an international free market (or of what passes for one), there is a lot of overlap between the economic nationalism of pat buchanan and the humanist internationalism of global exchange. both can see that global capitalism, a world-wide economic system that is not nested in any world-wide society, doesn’t respect or protect people’s way of life or their power to control how they will live in the future...




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At 9:08 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

No chance. True, Left and Right are disenchanted with Bush -- but all you have to do is tune in for 5 minutes to O'Reilly/O'Hannity/O'Limbaugh and you'll find that the Right is mad at Bush for not being far Right *enough.*

 
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