03-16-2004, 01:49 PM
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Eh?
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow
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Originally posted by meepa
Man... I don't neccesarily agree or disagree with a lot of your views. I am a pretty leftist kind of guy... But I'm telling you, as an American, you really do not have a grasp on what the typical American citizen is like. I have a feeling all you do is talk to either idealistic students or fellow socialists. There are TONS, and I mean serious elephant-sized shitloads, of people who are absolutely nothing like you in the U.S. If you think there is a surging amount of worker-animosity that is going to rise up against the capitalists and try for some revolution, you have got your head in the clouds.
I would say the vast majority of Americans are very centrist... Whether they lean a little to the left or right, it doesn't matter. They don't want change... they especially don't want the kind of massive change you always say they do. There are loud people on the fringes, both left and right, that would try to convince everyone that they are more numerous than they seem. And I would guess, if anything, more people lean towards the traditional, Christian right than anything. And this is coming from a leftist in Washington state... one of the most liberal and -the- most secular state in the Union.
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Give this man a prize. |
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