legitimacy

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 14 14:13:52 PST 2001


DMJ wrote:


>Blacks are so handy. With 40% of poll respondants saying that Bush did
>not win legitimately, and another 7% unwilling to say, one may think that
>we have a real legitimacy crisis. Never fear, though. Just point out the
>opinions of blacks, and then call them "resentments", and what started as
>a coup ends up as (yet another) mark of deviancy of an officially
>designated deviant population. The problem is not the laugability of our
>so-called democracy but rather the subjective state of "them". Factor out
>"their" resentments, and everything looks nice and stable.

Yeah, but 30% of whites thought W illegit. That's a lot of people.

Doug



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