On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Michael Hoover wrote:
> as for _right turn_, what ferguson and rogers were correct about at
> the time the book appeared in the mid-80s was that there was no - and
> i would maintain there is still no - basis for a conservative voting
> bloc majority, they showed that general public opinion ran contrary -
> often quite strongly - to just about every reagan agenda item...
So why was the guy re-elected by a big margin, why'd he leave office with a 63% approval rating, and why is he retrospectively rated as our "greatest" president? Theories like Ferguson's don't want to confront the deep conservative streak in US political culture - it's all manipulation by the Big Guys, and the little folks just go along for the ride. If that were really the case, wouldn't union and issue organizing be a lot easier than it really is?
Doug