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Originally posted by Serge_Oprano@Nov 7 2004, 06:31 AM
My theory of WHY is because:
1) the drop outs are the major benefits of social programs and hand outs
2) post grads are smart enough to understand that those social programs and handouts are nothing else but SAFETY valves,
designed to prevent social uphevals a-la Russia in 1917.
Poor people in mass with weapons are not a pretty picture for society.
(Anybody who lived thru LA riots would agree, even though it was on a lighter scale - no weapons)
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The first part of your analysis is right. I think the second part is wrong though. Those post graduates on the left tend to be in Academia, and they have a love for all things Marx. They seek to uproot traditional power structures and view the world in terms of sexism, racism, ethnocentricism, ageism, classism, etc.