paraphrastic redux - sfa - September 2004

Frank's Kansas

Chapter Seven - Russia Iran Disco Suck
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 [Frank describes his impressions of Gordon Liddy.]

298 (p139 I)

 The theme of Liddy's 2002 book (When I Was a Kid, This Was a Free Country)
 is that now America is not free although it used to be.

299 (p139 what)

 Among Liddy's examples of freedoms lost to oppression by the federal 
 government are the freedoms liberally to burn leaves, shoot birds, 
 carry guns, buy fireworks and dangerous chemicals, and blow things up.

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 When Frank was young he knew several habitually angry adults who had
 opinions similar to Liddy's.

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 They were few but their dramatic actions made them noticed. 
 [Frank describes a couple of amusing incidents.]

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 They were comfortable, prosperous non-blue-collar persons.

304 (p141 for)

 Politicians successfully developed the small number of people who were
 similar to the ones Frank describes into a potent coalition of the
 implacably aggrieved.

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 Now people with such attitudes form a nationwide subculture mediated by cable 
 television, radio and e-mail. They mistakenly think they are individualists,
 rather than a predictably generated personality type.

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 It has become commonplace for commentators in the various media to admire 
 supposed virtues of working-class people, but also to promote economic
 policies and practices that hurt many work-class individuals.

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 Nowadays, very few people change their attitudes from left-wing to right-wing.

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 [Frank mentions that historian Donald Meyer referred to a certain aspect of 
  positive thinking as "social anesthetic", which Frank has seen in a 
  friend's father.]

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 Typical college-educated Kansans of Frank's generation left Kansas.

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