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

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Jun 2 08:00:07 PDT 2003


Luke Weiger wrote:


>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?

Yup, which is interesting in itself; a generation ago, a Yale class almost 30 years out would have been almost all Republican. But their language is very strong - much stronger than anything I remember hearing during the Reagan years.

Doug



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