Kendall Clark wrote:
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> Kelley, I do not in any way deny that there is no lifestyle left. There
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Nonsense. There is no _Left_, period, in the U.S., there are only scattered individuals who (more or less) see themselves as interested in bringing a left into existence. I would assume that "The Lifestyle Left" is mostly due to the creative imaginations of Time and Newsweek reporters. In any case its existence or non-existence is of no interest.
When, in any definite context (as, for example, LBO discussions) someone seriously puts forth a proposition treating individual style choices as having political weight (as some months ago some jerk whose name I forget was making a big fuss about using Microsoft products) it is appropriate to pile up on him or her. But such generic attacks as Kelley is launching are as obnoxious as any of the targets of that attack.
Carrol