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Thread #70470 Message #1203223
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
08-Jun-04 - 11:19 PM
Thread Name: BS: A Fitting Tribute to a Great Leader
Subject: RE: BS: A Fitting Tribute to a Great Leader
"The basic values of our country are conservative"--well, Johnfitz, you seem to feel you're speaking for a lot of people. I sat in a graduate English class one day and when we introduced ourselves the woman next to me said "I was raised in a traditional family," and went on to describe her Southern Baptist Cleaver family existence, yet based on all of the people in the classroom, her "tradition" was the minority. She spoke in such a way as to suggest to the rest of us that we were aberrations from her "norm." Well, that's what you're doing. Somehow all of the people here are aberrations from your norm, and you dismiss the numbers who are clearly displeased with Reagan the politican, to say nothing of the marginal actor.
Now if you wanted to say that you're speaking for the gullible people of America, clearly quite a few didn't understand what a disaster Reagan was going to be to them, because they voted for him. you can do that. And they still didn't catch on after four years and they reelected him. You may speak for those folks.
SRS