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

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Thu Apr 19 18:58:42 PDT 2007


C. G. Estabrook wrote:


>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
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Let's also remember college deferements. If you were in college, you didn't have to go fight...until toward the end of the war.

Joanna



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