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Entry: Thank God We're Still in Vietnam Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/thank_god_were_still_in_vietnam#5087 Post contents: Yup John Edwards and Ron Paul We could see some realignment these days. Edwards is hitting some populist notes which are resonating in people cranky about the outsourcing of their jobs and other brilliant "successes" of our economic policies. Ron Paul is resonating in the anti-war crowd. Then the Democrats embraced the pro-life Bob Casey after they treated his father so shamefully. Could Bob Casey form a nucleus of social conservatives who are sick and tired or Republican bait-and-swithc tactics (i.e. promise to ban abortion, and deliver free trade with China)? I keep thinking in France, in the Thirties where there seemed to be a no man's land where oddball leftists and rightist wandered and found agreement with each other. Where George Valois went from founding a Fascist party to his own brand of anarchism, to finally die in a German concentration camp. Where the leftist Simone Weil worked in the farm of Gustave Thibon, of the Action Francaise, and left him her writing, which he published after her death, convinced that he had met the closest thing to a saint there was. Where the rightist George Bernanos and the leftist Albert Camus could find how much they had in common. Could we be facing such a no man's land here? Sent at: 2008 11 22