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coalition_unwilling

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8. I really wish we could rec responses, as yours deserves to be rec-ced to the
Tue Nov 20, 2012, 01:42 PM
Nov 2012

high heavens.

Myself, I trace its origins to Reagan's smarmy anti-intellectualism. But it may actually go back even further to reaction to the landmark civil rights legislation of the 60s or even further back to the rabid red-baiting of the 50s.

I keep searching for the appropriate literary reference. Frankenstein comes to mind (except at great offense to the monster in said work who would clearly be a Dem or a Social Dem could he vote), as does Pandora's Box.

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