John-John, RIP

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jul 20 12:57:01 PDT 1999


kelley wrote:


>btw, why is it that polls are frequently attacked on this list for being
>the tripe that they are, but when it comes to a poll that mirrors a view of
>the world that's acceptable then a-okay and hurray to polls.

So the American masses don't really revere the church, the army, and cops after all? Were they really disturbed that their military bombed the fuck out of some poor slobs in the Balkans, and just kept that concern under wraps? Ditto their great underappreciated concern that their government has starved and poisoned a million Iraqis? I'd love to believe that there were some great untapped reservoirs of solidarity and passion, but it's pretty damn hard to see any. Maybe I'm just in a bad mood this week.

Doug



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