I seem to have been inadvertently disproven. Check and mate.
>
> Jim Straub wrote:
>
> > are more than herds of bleating ignorant sheep). I think if most
> > leftists had friends, co-workers, partners, co-congregants and fellow
> > members of social circles and organizations whose political leanings
> > better reflected those of society at large, we as a movement would be
> > better able to 'move' the public on more issues, and have a more
> > realstic sense of what will happen and what can be changed and how. Not
> > that transformative, sustaining vision is unimportant, but rather, we
> > can't there from here erecting a prefigurative myopiatopia around us.
> >
> My reaction to religion and to people who live inside the Fox News
> bubble is based on interacting with these people on a daily basis. I
> think that if I still lived in Arlington and rubbed shoulders daily with
> activists, my comments about religion would be less hostile. But being
> back in Kansas City I've come to interact with people, especially family
> members, who revolve their lives around religion and Rush.
>
> I spent last weekend in the Bay Area. At some point on Friday afternoon,
> after walking around downtown S.F. for several hours, I got this feeling
> of culture shock that was rather unsettling. For one thing, I'm not used
> to seeing that many people outside, not in their cars, walking around. I
> probably saw more people walking around in one day in S.F. than I do in
> a year in Kansas City. And it was also unsettling to be around so many
> people who have similar politics.
>
> Again, those of you who live in "liberal" places where you interact with
> like-minded people on a daily basis should count your blessings. I
> guess the best thing about being surrounded by people who disagree with,
> and hate, one's politics is that it keeps you sharper and more
> appreciative of comrades. It's kind of hard to be sectarian in a city
> with few leftists.
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