[lbo-talk] NYT poll: Youth support war & Bush more than their elders

[C. G. Estabrook]

I quite agree.  But the real effect of formal education in regard to the 
war was perhaps not just to express the class interest but also to some 
extent to bring people into the government's consensus, such as it was. 

  The 'uneducated' who did not support the the government's position 
came from both sides, as it were -- opponents of the war as well as the 
"win or get out" people.  --CGE

P.S. -- An appropriate day for the topic: 232nd anniversary of Lexington 
and Concord.

Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:51 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 
>> It's worth remembering, too -- over against the myth of "college
>> radicals" and the Vietnam war -- that in the 1960s support for the US
>> government's war against Vietnam was directly (not inversely)
>> proportional to years of formal education.  I.e., American  
>> education was
>> doing its job: the more of it you had, the more likely you were to
>> support what Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon were doing to SE Asia.  Mutatis
>> mutandis, that's probably even more so today.  --CGE
> 
> But if education is a marker of class, which it is to some degree,  
> then it makes sense that those with more of a class interest in  
> imperial war would support it, no?
> 
> Doug
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