Re: You think the GOP is sure to lose big in November? Theyaren’t.
On Oct 2, 2006, at 10:58 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
the US is a deeply petit bourgeois society – where the nauseous
mixture of small town insularity, distrust of outsiders, public
displays of piety and sanctimonious self-righteousness and
jingoistic populism rule the day and dominate public discourse.
Yes, it has been - which, by the way, is one of the reasons I think
it’s unfair to denounce Hofstadter as a “consensus” historian,
because a lot of what he wrote is true, whiie the left historians
were busy exaggerating popular resistance - but a lot of that is a
holdover that survives as fantasy, while the underlying reality has
changed a lot. And a lot of us live in metropolitan areas, are
secular and/or gay (or have a gay cousin), have an open and
cosmopolitan attitude towards the outside world. This cartoon doesn’t
describe all of us, but those of us whom it doesn’t describe still
cut the xenophobes slack as representing The Real America. Fuck ‘em.
They don’t.
Doug