[lbo-talk] Hamid Dabashi on Iran

[C. G. Estabrook]

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:
> 
> On Jun 20, 2009, at 10:04 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote:
>> 
>> 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