Re: Re: Thomas Ferguson’s Golden Rule: criticism? compliments?
On Jul 20, 2006, at 7:46 AM, Michael Hoover wrote:
as for right turn, what ferguson and rogers were correct about at the time the book appeared in the mid-80s was that there was no - and i would maintain there is still no - basis for a conservative voting bloc majority, they showed that general public opinion ran contrary - often quite strongly - to just about every reagan agenda item…
So why was the guy re-elected by a big margin, why’d he leave office
with a 63% approval rating, and why is he retrospectively rated as
our “greatest” president? Theories like Ferguson’s don’t want to
confront the deep conservative streak in US political culture - it’s
all manipulation by the Big Guys, and the little folks just go along
for the ride. If that were really the case, wouldn’t union and issue
organizing be a lot easier than it really is?
Doug