Re: NYT poll: Youth support war & Bush more than their elders
On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:51 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
It’s worth remembering, too — over against the myth of “college radicals” and the Vietnam war — that in the 1960s support for the US government’s war against Vietnam was directly (not inversely) proportional to years of formal education. I.e., American
education was doing its job: the more of it you had, the more likely you were to support what Kennedy-Johnson-Nixon were doing to SE Asia. Mutatis mutandis, that’s probably even more so today. –CGE
But if education is a marker of class, which it is to some degree,
then it makes sense that those with more of a class interest in
imperial war would support it, no?
Doug