the fact remains that America is a fundamentally conservative country, possessed of stubborn common sense .[/quote]
The reason for this is because any left movements have always been bludgeoned by the establishment.
You know the history of Labor, the struggles, the conditions etc. People so quickly forget that the sweatshops of today were the industrial mills of the American yesteryear. The LEFT fought for workers rights, womens sufferage, civil rights, the 40 hour work week, clean food(the jungle), water, etc for everyone. They fought, they bled, they died, were machinegunned, gassed, tortured, jailed….now all that “handywork” is the product of a particulary viscious mentality which isn’t bound up so much in economics as it is in will to power (though it uses economics as a bludgeon).
The left has no media, we have propaganda matrix of which an acceptable “left” is aloud to be portrayed….
For real social protests. Watch Europe this year. They have 6 or 7 countries about to default. The IMF is already tightening the screws with wage freezes and cutting services. It’s going to get ugly and the MSM will be silent. They don’t want the proles to see what real social protesting is about. Just as they are keeping on the down low what went down in Iceland. Where the people uniformly said NO to paying institutional gambling debts of banks. That is the last thing the government wants.