British readers of the satirical magazine Private Eye may be reminded of the fictional leftist character, Dave Spart, who was forever to be heard explaining how he "totally and utterly" opposed some reactionary development or other.
Well, he does agree that it is a reactionary development, right? Or he's being too subtle for me. And I thought that nowadays it was the unreconstructed left that was reactionary.
And "leftist" is not an insult anymore - isn't that how they describe all center-left leaders these days?
This gets so confusing... In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
Diciphering the ideological content of the invective is becoming an art which might require the same sort of academic study as once pursued during the cold war, filtering the People's Daily for iterations of running yellow dogs of Capitalism and so forth.
Dizzying. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
You should write a diary about that... *Lunatic*, n. One whose delusions are out of fashion.
Personally, I prefer the former myself... Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
