[lbo-talk] Re: stupid americans?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Sep 27 07:24:54 PDT 2004


Carl Remick wrote:


>You sure took your Walt Whitman pills this morning -- The People, ya
>gotta love 'em! But my point is not that working-class USers in
>particular are dolts; Americans of *all* classes float around in an
>amniotic sac of complacency and ignorance. This is not new (see
>Dickens' _American Notes_, e.g.), but it has gotten much, much, much
>worse during the reign of Chimpanzee in Chief GWB.

About 10 years ago, I sat in the WBAI studio with Bob Fitch as host Mimi Rosenberg went on about how awful white people are. When she was done, Bob asked her, "Mimi, if white people are so awful, how'd you turn out so good?" So Carl - if Americans are so dumb, how'd you turn out so smart?

Doug



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