> What do you or anybody else think about Chomsky's frequent citation of
> polling data which purports to show that a significant majority of Americans
> have views significantly to the left of the Democratic Party? Chomsky is
> always citing these polls particularly during election time. These polls show
> that significant majorities support socialized medicine, think higher taxes
> to protect their environment are all-right, think the UN should handle
> Iraqi and Afghan reconstruction and that we should get militarily get out of
> countries where populations don't want us, 46 percent of Bush voters
> supported the Kyoto protocol and think Bush did too, etc.
I've always thought that Chomsky is right about this and my experience with the current zetigeist has me even more convinced.
Living in the Midwest, I've long gotten used to soft-selling my anarchist views. But lately, when I talk to non-anarchists about politics, I get the feeling that I've gotten to cautious and conservative. People are mad as hell at the system. They are mad at capitalism and the corporations. They are worried about how products are poisoning them and the safety of the food supply. People are looking for radical change and they have given up on the system.
I really expect that we will see some kind of situation where average working people do something while the leftists and radicals sit around debating if this is the proper time.
Chuck