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Entry: The Subversion of Lawrence Dennis Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_subversion_of_lawrence_dennis#5884 Post contents: About the subject of "passing" Did the people that Dennis associated with have racial theories about the inferiority of blacks and the need to enshrine the in laws, and more than the current attitude? Was Dennis aware of his own heritage? If the answer to both questions is "yes" then Dennis was, as they say, "unclear on the concept". A big blind spot in his view of the world, and one that might cripple some of his observations. As for the political panorama that Mr. Raimondo describes makes me realize how big was the crisis of American Democracy. A lot of fringe groups, some downright crazy, all pulling in different direction. The sad outcome of such a situation too often is to have a lunatic group come to power, as happened in Russia in 1917 or Germany in 1932. No one realizes how fringe were the Bolsheviks, nor the Nazis initally. The problem was that all they had against them were other fringe parties and large parties which had lost their prestige and were fractuirng right and left. Even when fringe parties do not come into power, they can paralize the government, as it happened in the Second Republic in Spain, where you had governments that lasted months, or weeks, because the smaller parties took away their support. In the USA, the government did not fall into the hands of lunatic groups. We may need to thank FDR for that small mercy. Sent at: 2008 05 16