La Cucaracha by Lalo Alcaraz for November 12, 2010
November 11, 2010
November 13, 2010
Transcript:
Ernesto: I'm glad all that election hubbub is over! Maria: Me too! Ernesto: All the screaming, the lies, the dishonest campaign ads... It can make a person stupid and ignorant! Ernesto: I'm sure glad we stomped on the heads of those Marxist-Socialist Marxists!
Irving Kristol started out as an avowed Trotskyite, so Communist is an apt term. But like many firebrand Leftists, with age he turned increasingly conservative in a style which came to be called “NEO-conservative”, with many taking Kristol to be the founder and arch-example. But I have trouble understanding what “neo-con” means because it seems a pointless hodge-podge of conflicting beliefs.
As for Paul Krugman, despite whatever contributions he may have made to economic theory, he is an unabashed advocate of the welfare state. You know, welfare state: the form of socialism in which the government nationalizes the taxpayer.