Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site tty3b.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!tty3b!mjk From: mjk@tty3b.UUCP (Mike Kelly) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: A Stilted World View Message-ID: <317@tty3b.UUCP> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 16:13:04 EST Article-I.D.: tty3b.317 Posted: Mon Mar 12 16:13:04 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 19:31:42 EST Organization: Teletype Corp., Skokie, Ill Lines: 25 Pat Cadell, the Democratic pollster, recently expressed his anger at the inability of the Democratic Party to come up with a real articulation of the anger felt by many in this country at Reagan. Walter F. Mondale is a likeable enough guy, and he is probably sincere in his beliefs, but he lacks fervor. Hart sounds like a commercial for Pepsi or something: "It's the Hart Generation, Comin' at ya, Goin' strong!" Cadell suggested that the reason is that the big powers in the Democratic Party seldom talk to anyone making less than $50,000. Sure, they know on an intellectual level what Reagan has done. They know that the poverty rate has risen, that hundreds of thousands of people have lost food stamps, AFDC, unemployment insurance. But no one they know directly, or speak to regularly, has really felt the brunt of the Reagan attack. It's good to discuss the Reagan pillage over white wine and cheese -- I suggest you do -- but it doesn't exactly give one fervor. I think the net suffers from the same trouble. We all take home our $30,000 and up salaries, live in the suburbs, work in a growing industry where unemployment is practically unknown. It's perhaps natural that this colors our view of the world. Unconsciously, perhaps, we assume in a thousand little ways that everyone has it so good. That anyone could really be where we are if they just tried hard enough. That somehow the victim is to blame. Mike Kelly ..!ihnp4!tty3b!mjk