[lbo-talk] Social Movements

[Marvin Gandall]

Wojtek:
>
> --- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, Woj, disagree. The "strange" and "wacky"
>> ideas pushed by the left
>> are things like peace, saving the environment,
>> universal health care,
>>  support for the disabled, universal education....
>> not at all strange or
>> wacky. I think
>
>
> I am afraid you missed my point, Joanna.  They are not
> "strange" and "wacky" to us, or for that matter to the
> majority of the EU public.  They are "strange" and
> "wacky" to the US public, even those otherwise
> sympathetically predisposed.
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Not according to the polls which show a majority of Americans broadly share
our views on Iraq, health care, the environment, social security, abortion,
and other issues. The problem, Woj, is that you share Mencken's sour view of
America as one big collective "booboisie", but Mencken's stereotype was
wrong then and you're wrong now.