[lbo-talk] Rethinking Liberalism

[Miles Jackson]

Jim Straub wrote:
> Ouch.  Sad.  Ah.  At the exact moment where the sentence, "in my corner of
> the woods (Portland OR)" begins, I rest my case.
>
> Can people really not see this around them?
>
> BTW I asserted before, but in the midst of a long rambling thing- smalltown
> country southern folk are, demographically, not the central question for
> future US.  Suburban US people are.  They happen to be the furthest from our
> lefts' horizon.  This portends our transition from niche to extinction.
>
> Hands up all who feel it is not a problem of the contemporary left that it
> is an isolated bubble apart from quote unquote quote ordinary people, in
> whatever their formulation.
> Hands up.  Stand up and be counted.
>
>   
This is just a bizarre argument.  There are 1.5 million people who live 
in the Portland/Vancouver area; they're all real, ordinary people.  Many 
of them live in the suburbs.  There is no segregation of leftists here.  
Your argument is completely baseless.

Miles