[lbo-talk] This is WAR, sons!

[Carl Remick]

>From: "Dennis Perrin" <dperrin at comcast.net>
>
>Got into a heated debate this weekend with a neighbor over Moore's film and
>the war in general. Working class guy, Greek immigrant, incredibly nice and
>open, the kind of guy who, if he sees you walking near his house, yells 
>out,
>"Hey Dennis! Come and have a drink! Just one drink!" Full of life, and it
>seems, full of fear. I asked if he'd seen "9/11," and while he said he'd
>like to, he was afraid that it would be more Liberal Press lies about the
>president's holy crusade. When I prodded him on this, he erupted about the
>out-of-work slackers who protest the war while guys like him and me work 
>for
>a living and contribute to society (my response that there are plenty of
>working people marching against the war was pretty much ignored), and about
>how only Fox News was "pro-America" while the "Communist News Network"
>undermined our efforts to eradicate the 9/11 terrorists in Iraq. And so on.
>I knew he leaned to the right, but till now had no idea how much. It took 
>me
>a half-hour to untangle as much of the above as I could, and though he
>conceded some things, and admitted that perhaps he over-simplified a few of
>his points ("CNN is pro-communist?" I asked, letting the question hang 
>there
>for a moment to allow the absurdity to sink in), he stood his ground
>overall, defending a position that rests on fantasies, ideological need, 
>and
>fear.
>
>So, comrades, how do we approach people like this?

With a bottle of retsina.

Carl

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