>> From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
>>
>> ... I think the average 'Mur'can identifies with Bush's lack of
>> polish, low intelligence, inability to >complete a coherent sentence,
>> and the nationalist arrogance that fuels whatever fire exists.
>
> This is what saves the overly misanthropic H. L. Mencken from
> ignominy. Yes, Mencken's American "booboisie" -- vicious,
> pig-ignorant and proud of it -- do exist. How to tame or educate this
> rabble is beyond me.
Back in the late seventies and early eighties, RCP cadre were going out to talk to family farmers being squeezed by financial institutions. They might've made more progress had they not spent so much time explaining to the farmers that they were actually not farmers, or small businessmen, but peasants.
Application of this principle to the current discussion is left as an exercise for the reader,
John A