Reply #13: I was listening to a video clip of an interview with Noam Chomsky, last night, [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

in which he differs from you in the idea that DUers are far to the left of most people. It was what I always felt, and seemed to see confirmed by the massive democratic turnouts and landslide votes against the Republicans, in the Bush privatised elections over the last 8 years. The degenerate rump of the US right, on the other hand, view the European Social Democrats as barely to the right of hard-line Communists.

In fact, the video was fascinating. He said that at elections, the American people were regarded as an irrelevance, and the media only reflect this, while, in fact, the people want major change and always have done - most notably, of course, with regard to a government-funded health service for all.

What's happened recently is not that they've begun listening to the people in that regard, but rather it was the US industrialist themselves who realised it was advantageou to them, too. GM found it cost them more than $1000 extra to produce a car/automobile in Detroit than it would/does in Canada. Hence the apparent conversion to a reformed, more moral perspective on the subject!