[lbo-talk] optimism

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

I live in a working class neighborhood in New Jersey and almost every
house has yellow ribbons and/or american flags out.  No overt peace
signs or anything like that.  However I have noticed a few houses with
lights in their windows, that were not there before, I would say 4-5
houses.  Moveon.org suggested to put lights in your windows as a sign of
protest.  Could this be what is happening here?  If that its the case,
it would be very significant, given the large number of military
families that live here.

Sergio 

Here in B'more a number of houses around the JHU campus have anti-war
signs in windows and on lawns.  The "hood" I live in has none - but no
flags or ribbons either (just car alarms and blasts of the hip hop crap,
as usual).  But outside B'more, going north I-83 to central PA there is
an orgy of flags, and god bless amerika signs.  I asked my wife if she
would fly a UN flag on her house, but in the last November election she
put a Rendell for Governor sign in her lawn and someone run it over with
a truck and dropped anti-semitic propaganda on her porch , so she
prefers to keep a low profile.

Optimism?  This country's population is more fascist than Germans in the
1920s.

Wojtek