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by Todd Gitlin, former hippie activist (SDS) and PBS honcho who, like horowitz and hitchens etc turned away from the idealism of 60's and noticed ALL the flaws in our youthful exhuberent thinking. In his book, Gitlin explains the 'Bob' character you mention, his role in US politics. Published in 1995, 'Twilight/common dreams' explores how the left, by pushing too hard in counterculture era, caused a reaction that...well it certainly destroyed the 'left' and made the rightwing domme by default. And race was one factor. 'Bob' is white. The men running corporate america/world are mostly white (thus a low paid janitor has more in common with the ceo's and the Loonimatti/Buggerburghers etc then he has with his fellow worker) Needless to say, it was white men, writing and broadcasting and making movies etc who arranged the alliance between dupes and the dupe users ...blah blah blah To unravel the psychological tieing-in-knots of the most powerful demographic on earth (michael moore, sean penn, noam chomsky, the guys at AAR, Clinton, Cindy Sheehan, Al Gore, Kucinich, Sen Wellstone, Fidel Castro and myriad DU'ers are WHITE!) will never happen but it's simply this- lies are easy, simple to explain while truth= complex as an onion peeled with oven mitts! Rightwing = the privileges of the few supercede all while Leftwing = needs of the many are main issue....and rightwing trumps the left in georgebushamerica! When even Todd Gitlin can't see it's his future, his Children, who are gonna die just like everyone else in the shakedown that's coming no matter how much we LIE (though it might take them a lil longer(?)) Bob hates himself
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