http://www.guardian.co.uk/michaelmoore/story/0,13947,1055591,00.htmlIn the US, a supposedly rightwing country, Michael Moore's fearless campaigning and coruscating criticism of 'that frat boy' Bush have aroused huge hostility but also rapturous fellow feeling. Gary Younge meets an engaging man, who is intent on mobilising America - and is extending the clarion call to us Brits, without whom, he believes, there would have been no war on Iraq.... In his new book, "Dude, Where's My Country?," in a chapter entitled Liberal Paradise, he points to polls showing that the majority of Americans are pro-choice "in all or most cases", agree with the goals of the civil rights movement and the environmental movement, believe health insurance should be provided to everyone, and that gays and lesbians should enjoy equal opportunity in the workplace. "You live in a nation of progressive-thinking, liberal-leaning, good-hearted people," he writes. "Let's take a victory lap together and then get to work on fixing the Great Disconnect - how is it that, in a nation of lefties, the right hand controls everything?"
... Suddenly the laughter stops and he becomes deadly serious. "It's not just Michael Moore. There are millions who think like I do. They just don't know where to go or what to do yet. The Democratic party has failed them. And so they don't have anything to grasp on to politically. But we'll figure it out."
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