-Caveat Lector-
I didn't see any mention of Al Gore Sr.being a staunch
segregationist who even voted against the 1964 Civil Rights
Act that only passed because of the Republicans who backed
LBJ and supported it. Just an oversight, I'm sure. No
attempt to distort the facts or anything like that. You'd
NEVER post anything untrue or giving history a little twist
to the left, would you, Radman?
Amelia
----- Original Message -----
From: "radman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 6:57 PM
Subject: [CTRL] Right Wing Populism: Too Close for Comfort
> -Caveat Lector-
>
> RIGHT WING POPULISM: TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT:
>
>
<http://www.e-venthorizon.net/parallax/culture_constitution/
rtwing_populism.html>
>
>
> An Interview with Chip Berlet & Matthew Lyons
>
> by Elaine Wolff, editor, parallax views
> February 15, 2001
>
> It's hardly news that the coalition that brought George W.
Bush to power in
> the 2000 presidential
> election includes heavy representation by far right
organizations with
> agendas to dismantle the
> gains of the civil rights movement over the past forty
years, as well as
> impede any further
> improvement in social or economic equality by the working
poor, feminists,
> gays and lesbians,
> immigrants or people of color. Unclear to many of us,
however, is the roots
> of this coalition in the
> right-wing populism of George Wallace, who launched two
unsuccessful
> presidential bids, as well as the remnants of Goldwater
Republicans and
> evangelical Carter Democrats. The political influence
exerted by these
> groups since Reagan's election was also responsible in
large part for that
> public travesty known as "welfare reform" an attack
primarily directed at
> women and children of color living well below the poverty
line. To this
> day, many of us on the left are still shocked that the
largest rollback of
> public assistance in the history of the U.S. was passed
under a Democratic
> president. Politicians in both parties successfully
created and preyed upon
> middle class fears that a large, idle underclass was the
parasite that
> threatened their prosperity - during the largest economic
boom in history.
> The truth, as author Matthew Lyons notes, is that the
Reagan revolution
> "involved a massive redistribution of wealth from
working-class and
> middle-class people into the coffers of the wealthy,"
while the
> lowest-income Americans are worse off in absolute and
relative terms than
> they were twenty years ago, as reported by Brookings
Institution economist
> Gary Burtless. How were the architects of the welfare
reform movement so
> successful?
> In their new book, Right-Wing Populism in America: Too
Close for Comfort,
> Lyons and co-author Chip Berlet shed some much-needed
light on the power
> behind the New Right coalition and its firm foundation in
American history.
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