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3886 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:27 AM, brad bauerly wrote: >> If you're accepting, for argument, that D=progressive, then the >> correlation with density is solid, your personal experience aside. >> >> ------------------------------ >> > It does http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2006/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/election/2008/countymapredbluer1024.png

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3887 [lbo-talk] Political geography ( Was: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1122, Issue 4) -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > I wouldn't have thought this was controversial. Look at the > electoral map in any advanced capitalist country and it's pretty > clear that liberal and socialist parties have historically drawn > their strength from the working class in the large cities while > parties on the right have typically appealed to more conservative > farmers, small town merchants and bankers, and their employees. I > recall posting 2008 election r ...

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3888 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2010, at 5:58 AM, Andy wrote: > Well, I sort of did, but I was referring to clinical mental illness. Well there's that too, but James doesn't want to believe the OECD's data. Doug

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3889 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 1122, Issue 4 -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:54 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > Why not? Why would they listen to people who disparage them? You think the reason that radical ideas aren't popular is that HL Mencken made fun of hicks? >> You're projecting and imputing wildly here. It's not a matter of >> fear and contempt or of writing people off. I spend considerable >> time in places like New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma because >> I know people there. Going there also gives me an aw ...

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3890 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:27 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Well, I think really the problem here is calling "the masses" > "stupid" or "crazy," which are insults. Who did that? I said our country is crazy, but that's a structural thing.

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3891 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > It always puzzles me to hear this from Lefties, because after > all, in whom can we repose any hope *except* the Great Unwashed? Hmm, as Carrol Cox pointed out the other day, turns of phrase are never accidental. "The Great Unwashed"? But, as any Marxist schoolchild could tell you, the spontaneous state of the proletariat is hardly revolutionary, or even inspiring. And understanding the system, as old Karl pointed out, isn't e ...

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3892 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:36 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > There is nothing uniquely American about the right basing itself on > over-represented small town and rural areas, as a counter-balance to > the more social-democratic cities. It is the norm in Britain (where > geographical constituencies are drawn to give rural voters extra > weight) whose Tory party is largely elected by the suburban and > rural parts of the country. It is true, I believe, also of most of > Europe, and ...

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3893 [lbo-talk] queering the portfolio -- rank: 1000

<http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE6110AI20100202> Galileo Capital unit to advise gay services firms Tue Feb 2, 2010 6:21am EST HONG KONG, Feb 2 (Reuters) - London and Hong Kong-based Galileo Capital Management said on Tuesday it has launched an advisory and investment management unit targeted at companies that provide products and services to the gay consumer market. Galileo did not say when its new unit, LGBT Capital, would launch the fund. As gay rights continue to evolve, compa ...

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3894 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > So instead of generalizing > about the American psyche or bitching about people's stupidity--which > is also exactly what the right does Actually the right doesn't do that at all. The standard line of the American right is that the people are immensely wise and that intellectuals, who are almost always liberals or worse, have their heads up their asses. Slightly more sophisticated version: the market is all-wise and planners are stupi ...

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3895 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:57 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > This gets it totally wrong. Stupidity isn't an absence of > knowledge--it's actively produced, like iPods and Tide. The same with > racism, sexism, etc. Those things don't just exist a priori and have > to be cured. They are fully constructed. So instead of generalizing > about the American psyche or bitching about people's stupidity--which > is also exactly what the right does*--a political act would be to try > to disrupt the ...

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3896 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 11:51 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Does that mean that LBO is really an American list, and that those > of us not from there should be more circumspect? It doesn't mean it's an American list, not at all, but I would prefer that people who comment on domestic U.S. politics show some familiarity with this strange place. Doug

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3897 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > If there were such a thing as an honest pollster They're not dishonest. They're in the grip of very standard ideologies. Within that, they strive to be scrupulous.

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3898 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:55 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > This shows the value Chris has to the list: You've learned that > Dossian ability to speak for tens of millions of people without > wincing. You live in Texas, right? Go amongst the people of Texas and interview them. Please report back. Doug

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3899 [lbo-talk] uh-oh! too much regulation!! -- rank: 1000

On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:48 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > HOW CARBON-EMISSION REGULATION WORKS Yes, James. We know how you feel about greenhouse gases. Of course, this has nothing to do with the public understanding of cap-and-trade in the USA, where it's widely perceived as a Bolshevik scheme to appropriate property and raise energy prices and harm economic growth and business interests. And it has nothing to do with what most people understand as the regulation of business. But otherwise, ...

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On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Or else the "masses," inarticulate but not stupid (unlike so many > liberals), understand that the regulators and the regulated are in > bed together and will be so as long as the "golden rule" applies You're giving too much credit to mass understanding. In the popular imagination, regulation means telling business what to do against its will. It's not about regulatory capture.

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