[ExI] be nice to leftists

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Harvey Newstrom <mail at harveynewstrom.com>
wrote:

> On Jun 14, 2014, at 2:30 AM, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote,
> >       ### Over 90% of the wielders of power in our society (Federal
> > employees, elite university faculty and administrators, mainstream
> > journalists, public intellectuals) are culturally leftist.
>
> I think you are just over-counting "leftist" types of power with these
> examples.  You do not mention corporate fat cats, Wallstreet brokers,
> bankers, police, military, religious leaders, organized crime,  and other
> power-hungry groups that are culturally "rightist".  There are power-hungry
> people all across the political spectrum and in all walks of life.


### The groups I mentioned wield sovereign power or indirectly shape it.
Others are feeding on the leftovers.

Rafal
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