[lbo-talk] who said it?

[Michael Dawson]

I was just listening to NPR, and heard the mother of a typical working-class
near-dropout kid who joined the Marines and just got killed in Iraq.  The
mother started rambling on about how lucky we all are that there have always
been people like her son who were willing to go fight dictators so we could
all have our wonderful freedom.

I could pick apart the problems with this, but isn't it just mostly a
reflection of the width and depth of the power of our ruling class?  Between
TV, schools, and Marine Corp indoctrination, these people are just simply
oppressed victims.  They just have no chance to rise above their
self-defeating kindergartners' view of their own society.

I pray the Europeans can save us.