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To: Thomas M. who wrote (396)1/28/2004 3:32:36 PM
From: Thomas M.   of 718
 
Here is Chomsky reiterating my point. Fox and the rest of the marginal right-wing media are crucial to this effort. They play up the Republican values that cater to Joe 6-Pack, in an effort to divert him from the important issues, such as labor activism.

<<< ... Bush succeeded in getting a majority of the working class vote even though he's harming them and the two issues on which people voted - the main issues - were religiosity and gun control. When I think of top issues of concern ... they care about their jobs, their pensions, their health care and things like that, but those things are not on the agenda. For good reason. Because on those things public opinion and elite opinion differ sharply so they are not on the political agenda, they're barely discussed in the media and people are left with voting about whether the guy is religious or not. The point is to create top down forms of democracy in which the public is marginalized but elites remain in control and they support power ... >>>

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