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Shane Mage wrote:
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> On Jun 21, 2009, at 4:43 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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>> 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?"
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>> 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.