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Alice, sounds like you have a fascinating manuscript in the works! What
you have sent is really mouth-watering. <br>
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Alice may be onto something here. They do see themselves as underdogs.
This justifies the more radical responses. Of course, since the days of
LBJ in the Senate (see Master of the Senate by Caro), the Dems have
enjoyed a majority, basically until mid-Clinton. During the the LBJ
presidency and the 70s the left was clearly ascendent. Now they seem to
be diminishing, and demographics seem to portend nothing but trouble
for the Left.<br>
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I recall my hippy friends in the late 60s saying 'when the revolution
comes' and I always wondered why we would revolt, since I thought we
had the greatest country in the world by far. I thought, "Oh, oh, If
the revolution comes, I will have to fight my own friends." Even then
there was a deep streak of hate and violence. Tom Hayden clearly wanted
people to die in Chicago in 68. I wonder if it isn't also the notion
that 'the system is rotten' and therefore one is justified in violence,
lies, and any other mechanism. My own experience with the Left in the
60s left me wondering what they were thinking and why they were so
angry. I think it is the Marxist underpinnings. Paul Johnson's <i>Intellectuals</i>
helped me see the personal life of Marx and how it corrupted his
political views. <br>
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Thanks for the food for thought!<br>
Lynn<br>
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