How old is the guy who has a view about Communists? I guess the thing I find remarkable is that the thought of Communists would come into his mind at all. In this country, and especially today, any views about Communists are sort of like the Elizabethan idea of atheists, no one had ever actually met one, spoken to one, seen one even, but one knew, somehow, that they were the Enemies of Humankind.
Most of my non- or semi-political friends think I am just Very Liberal, not in the slightly technical sense that I use the word, but just in a commonsense sort of way, meaning (for them) that I am basically a yellow dog Democrat and like the Clintons. (This despite my polite but firm statements that the Clintons refuse the term "liberal" in any sense, that I think they are basically Reaganites without the charm, and that I think the Democratic Party is a pathetic joke.) A few others -- or some of the same people! -- think that I am a "Communist" or a "Marxist," even if I tell them I don't call myself those things and that people who do call themselves those things think I don't qualify. Way too liberal.
--- bitch at pulpculture.org wrote:
> conversation at work:
>
> She, reading an email from an online friend who is
> Greece: My friend from
> Greece. *sigh* We get along so great, but there are
> some things that just
> upset both of us.
>
> He, listening to her, rather used to the prattle but
> relieved because it
> breaks up the boredom of the day, says, "Oh?"
>
> She: "She's very opinionated. And you know? Greeks
> don't always like
> America. Some of them hate America."
>
> He: "Oh certainly." He roots around in his head for
> a reason why this is
> so, some bit of world history class or something he
> might have read in the
> news.
>
> He, again: "Oh, in that part of the world you can't
> take it for granted
> that they love the US. And Greece has a large
> communist presence.
> Communists run for office there pretty regularly."
>
> It was such a classic conversation. Communist =
> America hater. Muslims can
> break out of that a bit, if they just become
> American. heh.
>
>
>
> At 01:42 PM 9/27/2007, Doug Henwood wrote:
> >Ok, Americans don't think too highly of Moslems or
> Mormons. But they
> >think even less highly of atheists!
> >
>
><http://pewresearch.org/pubs/602/public-expresses-mixed-views-of-
> >islam-mormonism>
> >
> >Scroll down to table at bottom for a full view;
> here are the highlights:
> >
> >favorable opinion of
> >
> >Jews 76%
> >Catholics 76
> >Evangelical Christians 60
> >Mormons 53
> >Muslim Americans 53
> >Muslims 43
> >atheists 35
> >
> >
> >
> >
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