On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 2:41:43 PM UTC-5, Master Bruce wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 12:30:14 -0700, Graham > wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 10:48:27 -0800 (PST), GM wrote:
> >
> >> Cindy Hamilton wrote:
> >>> On Thursday, January 28, 2021 at 11:29:34 AM UTC-5, Graham wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:07:43 -0500, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> > You left out this line
> >>>> > Take your pick. Fox News, OANN, Newsmax, Breitbart, ad infinitum.
> >>>> >
> >>>> > There is no doubt the ones you mention are left leaning.
> >>>> Only if you are a right-winger! To the rest of the world, CNN, the NYT and
> >>>> WaPo are to the right of centre.
> >>> Since we're talking about the U.S. and U.S. media, we might as well use
> >>> U.S. left/right conventions. Otherwise, we'd have to talk about right,
> >>> far right, and so far right it has an event horizon.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Good point - we are not "the rest of the world", we are the US...otherwise the conversation pointlessly "wanders"...
> >
> >As it does when USians inevitably use the terms "socialist", "Marxist" or
> >"Communist" without having a clue what those terms really mean.
> Cindy knows, but generally speaking that's true.

I think we can safely say that if USians use those terms, they generally
don't know what those words mean .

Those of us who know what those terms mean don't throw them around.

I've probably met a few Marxists or Communists living in and around a university
town for the past 40-odd years, but the presence of Marxists or Communists
in American politics is nil.

Cindy Hamilton