Loyal Resistance

Proud to be a Liberal. The Republican Party has succeeded in demonizing the word Liberal which actually means: "Not limited to or by established traditional, orthodox or authoritarian attitudes, views or dogmas; free from bigotry, favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded" -the American Heritage dictionary-. These are exactly my convictions, so what the hell are they talking about ? :)

Saturday, August 04, 2007

Fear and Loathing in Middle America

Looks like a good read.

clipped from www.alternet.org

Fear and Loathing in Middle America

By
Sasha Abramsky, The American Prospect. Posted July 30, 2007.

Author Joe Bageant's "Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War" gets down and dirty with the hardship economics in Middle America.

Bageant grew up in a fundamentalist Christian, ultra-working-class family in a claustrophobic little Virginia town named Winchester. Then, in his own terminology, he made his escape. He moved west and made a pretty decent career for himself in the world of journalism. A few years ago, though, he felt a craving for his childhood home and, now deep into middle-age, decided to relocate once more.

Joe returned home, to a landscape dominated by rabid, demon-battling fundamentalists (including his younger brother, a fire-and-brimstone preacher); NASCAR; overpriced mobile homes; greasy food; depressing, dead-end, anti-union workplaces; and gung-ho patriots whose pick-up trucks boast bumper stickers such as "Kick their ass. Take their gas."

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