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[Alan Rudy]

Chuck was saying someone understands this, in response to Doug's final line
- no one understands this... but Doug probably meant, by no one, few if any
of the likely-to-be-polled public (not pharmacorp reps and righty think
tanks).

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com>wrote:


> Hi Chuck. Isn't there a contradiction between:
>
> "The corporate + right think tank industrial
> complex know exactly how to word these polls to get the result they
> want."
>
> and
>
> "So, then the conclusion is no one understands any of this...? Kiss my
> ass."
>
> Contrary to the perspective of American Marxists and anarchists, it simply
> isn't the case that in every country the (mostly proletarian) public is
> entirely susceptible to state propaganda. For example, in some European
> countries, the majority, for better or for worse, was able to defy the
> private media and governmental mouthpieces on the EU constitution. This
> would never, ever happen in the United States.
>
>