I'm with you, Bob. The default position for Americans from liberal to
left is angry despair.
Best,
Mark
At 09:38 AM 4/21/2010, you wrote:
>Tim Allen wrote:
>>Pissy rant eh?
>>
>>One of the few Americans not taken in by all their crap - Chomsky
>>has every reason to rant - when Chomsky goes who will rant loud
>>enough over there for anyone to hear above the media.
>>
>>The problem with and for Chomsky has always been the terrible gap
>>between how he sees things and America's own picture of itself.
>>That gap is just too much for most liberal minded Americans, it's
>>too raw - "OK", they say, "we know it's bad, but surely it's not
>>that bad - deep down we are all good guys, aren't we?."
>>
>>And quite frankly no, you're not.
>>
>>Tim A.
>Yikes, Tim, not ANY of us? (I admit I'm not, but in my defense, I
>have to tell you I haven't lynched an African-American in over twenty years.)
>
>No more from me in this thread.
>
>--Bob
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