In article <1165493306.764259.265860@16g2000cwy.googlegroups.com>,
wrote:
>hummingbird wrote:
>> On 7 Dec 2006 03:23:48 -0800 'joseph.hutcheon@virgin.net'
>> posted this onto uk.politics.misc:
>>
>> >PJ O'Donovan wrote:
>> >> Gentleman Jim says:
>> >> March 18th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
>> >>
>> >> "I grew up in a dead hard Yankee New England town. There were over 600
>> >> graves of local men who fought in the American War for Independence
>> >> from England beginning in 1775.
>> >>
>> >> I was recently reading selected passages from the diary of a noted
>> >> townsman of the time leading up to the Revolution and during the war
>> >> itself.
>> >>
>> >> Paraphrasing:" Considering we stand at the vanguard advancing the
>> >> notion of Independence from tyranny, I would estimate that 25% of the
>> >> town remains loyal to the King, 25% would give their lives to rid us of
>> >> the Crown, and 50% give not a wit or whim which side prevails as they
>> >> are comfortable on the fence rail.
>> >>
>> >> This was in the best of New England towns supporting the Revolution.
>> >>
>> >> I say this to remind everyone not to romanticize or sugar coat history.
>> >> Most people are fence sitters, throughout history, even in the most
>> >> dire circumstances with the most obvious choices.
>> >>
>> >> The present majority in this country have not even been asked to
>> >> sacrifice much of anything in the last decade or so except their tax
>> >> dollars. The average American has certainly not been asked to give
>> >> their life or love or sacred honor for anything other than
>> >> pre-packaged, blow dried, Coporate Pseudo-Patriotism.
>> >>
>> >> Almost 50% on average don't even vote much less get off their duffs
>> >> to express an intelligent opinion on the trials of the day.
>> >>
>> >> The polls numbers today are theoretically encouraging to some but
>> >> merely may only indicate the theoretical flesh is weak."
>> >
>> >I don't know who Gentleman Jim is, or why we should care what he
>> >thinks, but what point is he/are you trying to make?
>>
>> That ~50% of people don't take a position on the major issues of
>> the day?
>
>If so, I think that's a rash conclusion to draw. I expect a great deal
>more than 20% of Britons wanted Hitler defeated, for example.
>
Britain had it's appeasers, including many that thought that they
should join forces with Hitler and defeat Stalin, the real enemy.
Until Pearl Harbor, the "American Firster's" were dominant in this
country. These folks wanted no part in the European and Asian wars.
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