[lbo-talk] who likes Hillary

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Oct 5 04:50:21 PDT 2007


On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:56 AM, Miles Jackson wrote:


> I am similarly bewildered by working class white Repubs who
> willingly support leaders who screw them over.

We've been here before, but 1) they get a kick out of racism, 2) they get a kick out of imperial war, as long as it's painless to them, and 3) many of the Protestant dispensation like The Market, as an impersonal tool of punishment and reward that keeps us fallen humans in line.

Doug



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