-----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Perelman Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:19 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L] democrat/liar
Today at basketball, there was a dispute about a foul. When I made my case, a young man, whose father is a fundamentalist preacher said that I was a liar because I was a Democrat. He knows nothing about politics, but just assimilates stuff like that. When someone fell a few weeks ago, his father said that the person on the ground was a flip-flopper, like Kerry. I found this incident interesting because it suggest how difficult it is to get working class people to understand what is going on. -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu Response: Of course this is some young kid parroting his father who is parroting someone else, but, although not all dems are liars (some are just gutless, comfortable, lazy and delusional) many, if not most, are, in my opinion, cowards and parlor "bleeding hearts", whose hearts "bleed"--but with other people's blood. And as for Kerry being a flip flopper, well he is but for many more reasons than wouold be known or advanced by this father and his son. And of course Bush even tops Kerry as a "flip flopper". The answer to this young man and his father is not to defend the dems against what is essentially true (but usually advanced for the wrong reasons or on the basis of a set of myths pr partial myths) but to show it applies equally or more to Bush and his filth. Jim C.
