On Jun 21, 2009, at 4:43 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> 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
>
And what about the legions of dumb "Right To Lifers," Fundamentalist
Christians, and Limbaugh dittoheads? Aren't many, if not all, of them
"poor and rural...people who believe in superstitious nonsense?"
> 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
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos