[lbo-talk] Oberlin College: Hell on Earth

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Nov 11 08:02:30 PST 2003


Dennis Perrin wrote:


>Agreed. Growing up in Republican Indianapolis I knew that my parents
>(divorced, in two different worlds) were involved in some pretty wild
>scenes, some sexual, some booze and/or drug fueled. Their friends were, on
>the surface, straight-laced conservative folk, but after a few drinks . . .
>whew! They had The Flag in the front yard, weekend cookouts, voted for
>Repubs and all the rest, and yet I'd find porno under the guestroom sink,
>overhear drunken sex-charged exchanges, etc. These are your "average
>Americans," more or less, the ones who voted for Reagan & W. The FrontPage
>ideologues are so far out in Scaife-funded territory that they actually
>believe that their political lives are somehow representative of those loyal
>Repubs who've never heard of them.

Of course, lots of people sin and then vote Republican because they can have it both ways - get their id ya-yas out, and then pay homage to the superego at the voting booth. It may be hard to get them to reconcile this contradiction without years on the political couch.

Doug



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