FW: [Peace-discuss] Populace to left of parties, government [update]

[LAURIE SOLOMON]

Subject: RE: [Peace-discuss] Populace to left of parties, government
[update]

Being the cynic and skeptic that I am, I have to wonder if one were to
screen out the current economic situation (i.e., crisis) how much higher
would the percentage of Amerikans who say they are otherwise satisfied with
the way things are going (notice we are talking about being satisfied with
it not necessarily liking it).  The economic crises obviously effects the
middle classes directly and in their pocketbooks more than it does the poor,
so the middle classes would find it not in their vested interests to accept
the way things are going economically and would complain about it more than
they would about events, policies, or crises that only indirectly impact on
their life styles in immediate and significant ways.  Of course, we do have
to acknowledge that we have no real operational definition of the range of
things that define "middle class" and who belongs to it as distinct from
other classes - especially "working class."  Most people defined as being
working class or who identify themselves as being such often desire to be
middle class, promote and value middle class norms, values, goals, and
ideological socio-cultural mores and beliefs, including some of the biases
and discriminatory behaviors and reactions to the underclasses and poor,
immigrants and minorities who they may see themselves in competition with in
the quest for middle class life styles and upward mobility into secure
middle-middle class statuses.

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Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:13 PM
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Subject: [Peace-discuss] Populace to left of parties, government [update]

	Americans' Satisfaction at New All-Time Low of 7%
	Bush's disapproval rating of 71% sets Gallup record again
	by Elizabeth Mendes

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A mere 7% of Americans say they are satisfied with the
way 
things are going in the United States, the lowest satisfaction reading in
Gallup 
history. This finding, from a weekend USA Today/Gallup poll conducted Oct.
10-12 
after a week of devastating losses on Wall Street, is down 2 points from the

previous record low of 9% recorded just over a week ago. Prior to this
month, 
Gallup's lowest satisfaction reading had been 12%, measured in 1979...

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/111169/Americans-Satisfaction-New-AllTime-Low.as
px>

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Populace to left of parties, government
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:30:38 -0500
From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at uiuc.edu>
To: Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>


"...only 9% of Americans are satisfied with the way things are going in the
United States -- the lowest such reading in Gallup Poll history.

"The previous low point for Gallup's measure of satisfaction had been 12%,
recorded back in 1979, in the midst of rising prices and gas shortages when
Jimmy Carter was president. Gallup has recorded a 14% satisfaction level at
several points -- once in the senior Bush's administration in 1992, and
several
times earlier this year..."

[Entire article at
<http://www.gallup.com/poll/110983/Americans-Satisfaction-AllTime-Low.aspx>.
]

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