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To: Neocon who wrote (86944)	11/18/2004 2:41:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793717

Here's my nit. This is not to say that there are no longer Left leaning social scientists, it is to say that those who might have been considered more center- Left thirty or forty years ago have often moved to the Right. The way this is phrased it sounds like people adopted a more conservative POV. My general sense of how it played out was that the people didn't change their views but that the progressives pushed the range out so far left that the ruler shifted leaving the delineating lines further left. Which makes it look like the people moved a notch right when the notches actually moved left. Also, the subject became more attractive to folks on the right as they were inspired to engage in an effort to stop the leftward flow. FWIW.

To: Neocon who wrote (86944)	11/18/2004 2:55:04 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793717

I have a question for you. I caught the tail end of an interview in the very early hours the other day of an author who might have been Thomas Frank. If not he, then someone who has published on a related subject. (Did I mention that it was very early in the morning and several days ago? <g>) I tuned in just as he was answering a question by saying that the values difference between right and left was a matter of personal values vs. social values. He went on to say that it would be great if we could find a presidential candidate combined the two or spoke currently to both or some such. And then the interview was over, leaving something clanging in my head. My gut reaction was that it's not likely that anyone could merge the two successfully. Do you have any thoughts on that?