Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] what majority wants Bush?

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:
> I was just thinking that there is probably no country on this planet 
> (with the possible exception of the USA) where the majority of people 
> want Bush to defeat Kerry in the upcoming election.  Am I wrong?
> 
> Then, within the USA, women will prefer Kerry to Bush as will all, or 
> nearly all, ethnic minority groups (certainly the majorities of Black 
> and Hispanic voters will vote for Kerry).  I also suspect that the 
> majority of young Americans (under 30, say) will vote for Kerry.  So I 
> guess it's just older white men in the USA who want to impose Bush on 
> the world!!
> 
> Am I missing anything?
> 


In my parents' generation, the left wing were really becoming the prime 
moving force in politics.  Although they had several wacky people, on 
the whole they had many noble causes, for example rights of racial 
minorities and women.  The right wing were the establishment.  They 
really couldn't understand the upcoming left wing movement, and reacted 
not with reasoned argument, but with an almost irrational antipathy.

Now I am sensing that the positions have somewhat reversed.  I feel that 
it is now the left wing that have become the establishment.  The left 
wing not only disagree with the new upcoming right wing - there is a 
total lack of respect.  What may be happenning is the the left wing 
today may be becoming as reactionary and fuddy-duddy as the right wing 
was decades ago.  For example, in the 60's, free love and sex was 
becoming the way to go.  Now abstinence is beginning to become hip, and 
the outcry against this is great as were the feelings against the sexual 
revolution.

In the long term, I see the nation to be moving towards more 
"traditional" values.  The liberals may or may not win this election, 
but that will not stop this trend.

Stephen
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