[lbo-talk] more populist nuance

[Eric]

>  > "America is obviously waiting for a message of some sort" [David
>   > Byrne/Brian Eno]
>
>  >  Could be, but I would like to see an argument both for the validity of
>>   the statement as description of present reality _and_ for the (implied)
>>   _non-applicability_ of the proposition in respect to any other time in
>  >  the last century or so.

There's no nonapplicabilty. It's about different articulations of the 
applicibility. I count at least five words in the sentence that could 
be the point of emphasis, for starters.