[lbo-talk] bad for the party?

[Charles Brown]

In the period of the present going back a few years, I'd say Bush's
historically low ratings, the high level of support of Barry, and
Clinton, and the nomination of McCain who projected himself as a
maverick from the borderline fascist Republican Party ( though McCain
seems to be running right now) means that mass attituds are politically
better than they have been for several years since 9/11.   Whether this
trend will move more substantially out  of Reaganism of the last 25
years is yet to be seen. It could revers direction , of course.

Charles

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Wojtek Sokolowski swsokolowski at yahoo.com 
Fri May 16 13:43:03 PDT 2008 

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--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


> 
> On May 16, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote:
> 
> > Yes, yes -- but don't romanticize the young out in
> these parts, or  
> > in my old
> > stomping grounds of central Indiana. There are
> plenty of young
> > reactionaries, and their demographic is fed things
> like mixed  
> > martial arts
> > and fundamentalist Christianity. I see it every
> day. It depresses  
> > the hell
> > out of me.
> 
> For sure. I said things are getting better, no more.
> 

[WS:] Were not people saying the same in the 1960s and
1970s?  And then we got the "Reagan revolution."

I think that the best predictor of the popular
attitudes is the economy.  If it is growing, everyone
has high expectations about the future and becomes
more receptive of liberal ideas. It it is going south,
people get scared, bitter, close in thier ranks and
adopt reactionary ideas.

Based on the way economic winds are blowing, I am
afraid that we have not seen the worst of reactionary
populism yet - in which the youth of America  will be
leading the way.

Wojtek

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