[lbo-talk] Re: poor, white and pisssed

[Carl Remick]

>From: Tommy Kelly <tkelly15450 at charter.net>
>
>Doug wrote:
>
>"So why did about half of the white working class vote for W?"
>
>Well unlike most of you, I actually live around these people:
>
>*The first reason is simply word of mouth.  Gossip flys further than most 
>birds in rural areas... esp. in the southeast.  I hate to say it but women 
>are the key reason for it.  People hate junk mail and radio talk shows, but 
>the few who bother to listen to it spread false information around 
>word-of-mouth.

Aha.  Possible long-term advantage to the left due to the growth of Web 
usage.  As this list shows, no one on the vast grapeline of cyberspace can 
outblab the left.


>* The second reason is the blunt propaganda that is taking place in the 
>churches like never before.

There the left is screwed.  There's no way the left can out-Jesus the right.


>* The third reason is simply this: the Democratic Party has long ago lost 
>its socialist agenda.

Amen, right on, and I agree fully.  I'm not sure the Dems ever had a 
socialist agenda to lose, but it's encouraging to think their renewed 
interest to the white working class might be tied to the Dems' getting a 
socialist agenda -- even it it has to be rammed down their throat.

Carl