[Peace-discuss] Fwd: The Evangelical Rebellion by Chris Hedges

[C. G. Estabrook]

On the Reformation and the subject of this thread, let me recommend the
best book I've seen in some time on the subject:

	James Simpson, *Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism
	and Its Reformation Opponents* (Harvard UP 2007)

Robert Dunn wrote:
> 
> No Matt, Cockburn is going after the American Left which has sold out
>  the working class and became enmeshed with the Universities, 
> Identity Politics, Environmentalism, Vegetarianism, Anti-Gun Rights. 
> The very people that the American Left should be defending, are now 
> sneered at by the Liberal wing of the Left. Back in the 1800s, 
> evangelicals were the backbone of the Left. William Jennings Bryan 
> was one of the biggest examples that Liberals hate to remember. So, 
> where do the common working class folk go to. Their culture is 
> sneered at by the cognoscenti snobs of American Liberalism and is 
> exploited by the Right. Instead of telling the common man that he is 
> stupid for eating meat, not saying the PC things, being religious, 
> why not stand in solidarity with him and get out of the comfort of 
> the Ivory Tower and the circus of Identity Politics and whether or 
> not the College of Agriculture is "diverse." That pissed me off about
>  the American Left, and that is why I can not identify with the 
> American Left or even the American Right anymore. When the American 
> Left does some soul searching, and allows for some self-criticism to 
> take place, growth will happen. Until then, we still will not get it 
> because American Leftists refuse to understand the errors of their 
> ways. A Reformation, (sorry Carl for the analogy) of the American 
> Left is in place. I could put my thesis on Peace_Discuss for further 
> comment. Cheers, Robert Dunn
>