SR,

Considering you fired the first shot with:

"It is quite amusing how much effort and dishonesty you on the right are putting into waving the flag for this bloke."

It would appear that you are more than a bit sookie yourself. I will gloves back on if you do.

Foxy,

The left is moderate and the right are the ideologues? what a joke, the entire agenda of identity politics and PC culture/thought police is driven by the left.

Dear Shadow Minister,

Which was in reply to a similar general retort from you.

"BS fantastical claims made by the left whingers"

There is a difference though from 'you lot' to 'you personally'. The 'sick puppy' was personal.

Look, as fun as these more robust exchanges can be I value far more when I am forced put in the research to defend a position. Why else would I have been induced to seek and read the DNA report from Warren?

Sniping at each other is like eating at Mcdonalds, satisfying at first but delivering little ongoing nutrition.

SM,

I realise that "cultural Marxism" is a uniting
theory for Righwingers who love to play the victim.
It accounts for things they disapprove of - things like
Islamic immigrant communities. feminism, and - er -
Bill Shorten, and of course the ABC.

SR,

OLO is no fun without a Nemesis. Our debates force me to learn too, and I will endeavor to steer away from the personal.

Foxy,

I don't believe that I have ever used the term cultural Marxism especially as I am sure that the people using don't know what it actually refers to and are using it as a catch all for all leftist ideas.

From what I understand is that cultural marxism is a term developed in Germany by disaffected Marxists concerned that in spite of their beliefs that capitalism was thriving and not collapsing, and that communism was delivering totalitarianism, mass murder and misery. The theory was something along the lines that socialism / capitalism was a culture war and that people would not be ready for a socialist utopia until they were molded into the correct temperament.

Today, it is aimed particularly at identity politics leading to people being treated as members of a group rather than as individuals, political correctness controlling speech, and "rights" eroding freedoms.

I personally prefer to be more specific than general and tackle the issue directly.

It is very near midnight in America, in about eight hours the vote begins.
Trump is on his pat my pack tour [it is his hand patting his back]
He squeaks hate and fear, tells of a Democratic party that is so far let it is dangerous.But any observation of him leaves no doubt it is his right wing group who are dangerous

Dear Belly,

It will be delicious hearing how he is going to spin the loss of the House of Reps. Sure the Senate given this cycle is likely to remain Republican so maybe he will focus on that, but a 30 seat shift in the reps is going to be hard to dress up.

Perhaps he will blame Hilary.

What a hoot!