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- From: bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden)
- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- wkaufman@us.oracle.com (William Kaufman) writes:
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- > That's the libertarians, who try not to classify themselves as
- >either liberal or conservative, because the conservative, Barry
- >Goldwater-style ones would get into small arms fire with the anarchist,
- >Emma Goldman-style ones, and wreck the party.
-
- > If Usenet is any reasonable sample, though, there *does* seem to be
- >a relation between being a programmer and a libertarian. I don't think
- >anyone can prove a definite correlation; but my guess is that the two
- >are related by the fact that programmers are overwhelmingly white,
-
- I do not think that it is really because programmers are white, educated,
- upper-middle-class. These characteristics would usually correspond to
- either a conservative, or liberal inteligensia, and not libertarian.
- The white upper-middle-class has the most to gain by stability (hence
- conservatism, if not politically, at least in life style). They tend
- to be the strongest supporters of societal values, including the police,
- because they have the most to lose if society fails.
-
- I will agree that you do have a large number of libertarians in the
- programming ranks. I don't have any good ideas of why, but you can
- definately tell the difference between the people taking engineering
- classes and programming classes (much more libertarian).
-
- Bruce E. Hayden
- (303) 758-8400
- bhayden@csn.org
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