Thursday, November 4, 2004, 3:59:30 PM, atri2715 wrote: >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The majority of people, as we know, were concerned about god, gays, and guns. They rejected what they perceive as the danger of the endlessly permissive society. It is easy to condescend to these sentiments. But the democratic elites had little or nothing to say about this basic concern. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> is that right? >>>>>>>>>>>> Perhaps out of this defeat a more serious, classically democratic party will emerge, one that embraces the economic and social concerns of common people instead of assaulting them with relentless cultural deconstruction that perplexes many fundamentally decent, if unsophisticated, folk. >>>>>>>>>>> "relentless cultural deconstruction"? e.g.? >But I wouldn't worry about a> the democrats too much either. The long term trend is still toward a> liberalization meanwhile Bush-judges can rule for 40 or so years -- Judy Evans, Cardiff, UK mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html