[lbo-talk] MN: Repugs beginning to worry Iraq will be bad for them

Luke Weiger lweiger at umich.edu
Sun Jun 1 17:22:11 PDT 2003


Doug wrote:
> By the way, speaking of the potential for bourgeois troubles for
> Bush, my window into upper middle class thinking, the Yale class of
> 1975 listserv, is showing considerable fear & alarm at the Bush
> admin. Upstanding professionals are throwing around words and phrases
> like "disaster," "fascism," "ruin of the U.S.," "climate of fear,"
> and "emigration." One federal employee, who works for a very
> important (and underfunded) agency (which I won't identify, to
> protect him) says that the professionals within his agency, as well
> as others like the State Department and the FDA, worry that Bush & Co
> intend to destroy them. My classmates aren't the high bourgeoisie,
> but they aren't the lumpenbourgeoisie either.

They are mostly Democrats, right?

-- Luke



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