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<DIV>They now look around them, and realize that they were lied to by both corporate parties. The media doesn't offer them the analysis that has been available from leftist critics all along, in response to mergers, downsizing, outsourcing, growing inequality, and everything else. So they are told by Republicans to blame immigrants, and by Democrats to go back to school and get educated. </DIV>
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<DIV>The Tea Party, after a fashion, has offered them the beginning of an answer. "Free trade," like capitalism itself, is a farce and doesn't even exist.</DIV>
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<DIV>Will "progressives" choose to despise those who arrive at these conclusions? Or will they continue to shil for the Democratic Party?</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Robert Naiman <naiman.uiuc@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, November 11, 2010 11:26:17 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> [Peace-discuss] Pew: "Tea Party" Republicans more critical of "free trade" than other Republicans<BR></FONT><BR>The Pew Research Center for People and the Press did a poll that<BR>showed the Republicans who "agree with the Tea Party" are much more<BR>critical of "free trade" than other Republicans.<BR><BR>It's not clear from the data that they report how much of this might<BR>be correlated with demographics: it's probably the case that<BR>lower-income Republicans are more likely to describe themselves as<BR>sympathetic to the Tea Party, and of course lower-income people are<BR>more critical of "free
trade" more generally.<BR><BR>Nonetheless, it's an interesting finding. It would be very interesting<BR>to see a similar poll on foreign military policy questions: the wars,<BR>foreign bases, military spending, US policy on Israel/Palestine.<BR><BR>Here is the Pew report:<BR><BR><A href="http://people-press.org/report/673/" target=_blank>http://people-press.org/report/673/</A><BR><BR>Money grafs:<BR><BR>"Republicans and Republican-leaning independents who agree with the<BR>Tea Party have a particularly negative view of the impact of free<BR>trade agreements. Only about a quarter of Republicans who agree with<BR>the Tea Party (24%) say that free trade agreements like NAFTA and the<BR>policies of the WTO have been a good thing for the United States,<BR>while 63% say they have been a bad thing.<BR><BR>Among Republicans who have no opinion of the Tea Party or disagree<BR>with the Tea Party movement, opinions are evenly split (42% good<BR>thing, 42% bad
thing). Overall, about half (51%) of all Republican and<BR>Republican leaners say they agree with the Tea Party while 42% have no<BR>opinion; very few (5%) disagree with the Tea Party."<BR><BR>-- <BR>Robert Naiman<BR>Policy Director<BR>Just Foreign Policy<BR>www.justforeignpolicy.org<BR><A href="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org" ymailto="mailto:naiman@justforeignpolicy.org">naiman@justforeignpolicy.org</A><BR><BR>Urge Congress to Support a Timetable for Military Withdrawal from Afghanistan<BR><A href="http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern" target=_blank>http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/act/feingold-mcgovern</A><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Peace-discuss mailing list<BR><A href="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" ymailto="mailto:Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net">Peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</A><BR><A href="http://lists.chambana.net/mailman/listinfo/peace-discuss"
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