[Tokhtamish]

It falls along class lines. Evangelicals born with silver spoons in their mouths like Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed take the corporate side. Most like Phyllis Schalfly and Gary Bauer no more trust corporate elites to make all societal decisions than they trust Viacom to teach their children morals.

The failure of Ralph Reed to get the Christian Coalition to endorse NAFTA was telling. I see the major force here as blue collar economic self interest which was always rightly suspicious of people who assume their jobs are jobs that America can afford to lose.

Bear in mind, as the Gordon Riots around 1750-ish showed, that the Victorian city saw the privileged and well to do balanced precariously atop a huge, volatile lumpen population.

[1rudeboy]

People act in their economic self-interest? How long do you think it'll be before free-traders figure that out?