Interesting article from the Independent/UK, on the gap between the peace movement and the bulk of the American people. Robert Fisk commented on an encounter with a pro-war cameraman, stating the encounter was "a symbol of the vast gulf of reason between the pro- and anti-war movement in America. They don't talk to each other. And if they do, neither comprehends the other. Like the endless chat programs on Pacifica Radio and all the smaller liberal talk shows from Boston to LA that serve up inedible dollops of anti-Bush, anti-Republican rant, there is simply no contact between the intellectual "elite" of the left and the less privileged Americans who work with their hands and join the military to gain a free education and end up fighting America's foreign wars."
He commented later in the peace that to reach out to normal Americans would mean leaving their sheltered ivy towers. He didn't comment much on the danger of the left patronizing the average mass of humanity. I myself have noted that the left seems to believe that the more educated, the more sophisticated an individual becomes, he will inevitably become more liberal. That doesn't appear to be the case in reality, but it is a pleasent enough fantasy I suppose.
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