Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 16:55:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "Michael D. Damore" <mdamore-AT-moose.uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: Gingrich and the 18th Brumaire


Louis:
	Interesting post of yours one the 24th of March (I just got to 
it).  How about replacing the pez with the much longer term "the 
frightened, huddled, extremely religious and superstitious, bordering on 
racist white folk."  I think that your proposition of middle managers 
works, but all the middle managers in the world don't make up enough 
support to rule. Angry, stupid, poor white folks do, and if we have 
peseantry in this nation (which we don't), they come the closest to being it.

They vote, much more they vote the way the Pat Robertson tells them to.  
They don't act politically according to their economic benefit, but they 
think they do (again much like the pez of Europe, who were often 
counter-revolutionary because their short-term interests lied with that 
position, but their long-term interests, of course would have been to rid 
themsleves of fuedal lords and capitalist bosses).  "Wow, I'll get the 
tax burden off me for them damn welfare cheats, and the bad, atheistic 
public schools will no longer burden my tax money either, and we'll have 
god back in the nation once again and good, old fashion family values 
too."  Sound familiar; I think it sound like Euro peseantry round the 
time of capitalist expansion in Europe -- different words, same intent, 
and same value to the stateists who have their own scary agenda.
	The only good thing about using the French model is what came 
after Nappy III, the Commune.  This time let's hope it lasts longer than 
a few weeks.

Soli,
Mike


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