Lazare: Unpatriotic opposition

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Mon Jan 13 13:42:57 PST 2003


RE:
> If these things happen, today's minority could easily turn into
> tomorrow's majority, and Bush's (unelected) presidency could crash as
> his father's did in 1992.

For the record, Bush Sr. was defeated not by ant "anti-war movement" (his popularity spred after the Persian Gulf War), but by the liberal-centrist Clinton who successfully appealed to mainstream population.


> is an enormous contradiction that many Marxist and semi-Marxist
> organisations and parties are hastening to exploit.
>

Life is full of contraditions and people learned to cognitively deal with them. People do not act on perceived contradictions. They act if they see that something positive with a promise to produce tangible changes for the better in their lives is withing their reach.

Wojtek



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