Poll Leez State?

[Dave Monroe]

Uh ...

--- Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> The 1980 election and the 1984 consolidation of
> those results marked a decisive realignment in
> American politics.  Not only did they represent
> the most significant electoral shift since the
> 1930s; they were accompanied by the largest and
> most comprehensive policy changes in modern times.
> Reagan's unprecedented success in implementing his
> policies was matched only by his ability to move
> Nation Rightward.

Okay so far, and for the following ...

> Instead of an increased polarization, the Reagan
> Revolution produced a Democratic Party that
> accepted substantial parts of the new conservative
> agenda and sought to shed its identification with
> traditional constituencies. 

But here's ...
 
> Reagan's electoral victories are a direct challenge
> to the Radical Left's claim that America is a 
> Police State.  The democratic process elected 
> Reagan. The shift to the Right had nothing to do
> with a  Police State.  That is not what Pynchon 
> argues in his prose fiction (VL) or in his essays.
> What Pynchon argues in VL and elsewhere is that
> business and the interests it dominates have largely
> controlled American politics for a very long time.
> Even the liberal socialist politics of the New
> Deal and the Great Society were manufactured and
> produced by business interests in order to meet
> their own economic needs while simultaneously
> responding to and defusing popular protests.  Labor
> was defeated by business. VL is the story of 
> Labor's Defeat.

... precisely where I'm not sure that you've either
completey understood the novel, or are absolutely
clueless.  Depends on where you believe Pynchon is
coming from, going to on this ...



	
		
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