AR:
>while utterly ensconced within the fly-over states
JG:
No, I'm in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn until Friday... and then
back to East Asia.
AR:
>surely you've not forgotten how much of the Real America
>resides in SoCal, the Central Valley, and Eastern WA and OR
JG:
Ah yes, Croatian descended big growers, third gen refugees
from Muskogee, and Sagebrush Rebellionists. Of course, as
you acknowledge, I'm talking about my perceptions of dominant
perceptions, rather than the reality of dominant perceptions,
much less the reality of reality.
AR:
>the hard work + thrift + godliness terrain of populism swings "left"
>and "right" based on who the big-and-bad-of-the-moment are
JG:
Sure. I was on a different jag, commenting on how mainline Protestant
self-disicpline and austerity is a sometimes forgotten and deep source
of US market worship, and forgotten precisely to the extent that many
(most?) heirs of the mainline Protestant tradition have become secular
liberals (including hairshirt or neo-Malthusian environmentalists!). I was
basically echoing something that Doug has said elsewhere.
Three posts for the day, I'm out.
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