[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

C. G. Estabrook galliher at illinois.edu
Sun Jun 21 13:43:54 PDT 2009


A good illustration of an important but occluded fact of political life in the US: the political class -- roughly, the 20% of the population who attended good colleges -- are taught to despise the 80% (as "dumb people who believe in superstitious nonsense"), with whom their interests in fact coincide. Instead, they're taught to identify with that small fraction of 1% who actually own the country, whose interests are opposed to those of the vast majority. --CGE

Shane Mage wrote:
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> On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote:
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>> Poor and rural folk have often opposed liberalism from the right. Maybe
>> it's because they're dumb people who believe in superstitious nonsense, but
>> that's not my default assumption.
>
> In the USA that's not a default assumption--its the manifest truth.
>
> Shane Mage



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