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

[Morton K. Brussel]

Yeah. Useful to say.

One might add that there is rarely a close congruence between our  
political representatives' tendencies and those they represent.

--mkb

On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:10 PM, LAURIE SOLOMON wrote:

>
>
> 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.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net
> [mailto:peace-discuss-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C. G.
> Estabrook
> Sent: Wednesday, October 15, 2008 2:13 PM
> To: Peace-discuss
> 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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