Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!jarthur!uci-ics!ucla-cs!smcnet!byoder From: byoder@smcnet.UUCP (Brian Yoder) Newsgroups: alt.individualism Subject: Re: Kennedy wasn't the first. Summary: What the average citizen thought about the early US. Message-ID: <528@smcnet.UUCP> Date: 19 Jan 90 06:40:18 GMT References: <89348.161937BROWN@NCSUVM.BITNET> <1372@becker.UUCP> <461@smcnet.UUCP> Organization: Santa Monica College Telecom, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 22 In article , jb3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jon Allen Boone) writes: > Of course, what do you expect? At the time, Washington and cohorts > probably had about the same amount of education (other than > self-education) that you have now (or have had the opportunity to take > advantage of). The average citizen was more concerned with making a > living and surviving than with idealistic notions such as freedom and > individual liberty. > Accounts of american attitudes after the revolution as seen by foreigners are quite consistent. The general population was very aware of their freedoms and very proud of the establishment of a free country. Come on americaphobes, can't you come up with any rationale behind your silly projection of anti-americanism on early americans? Of course not. Brian Yoder -- -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>- | Brian Yoder | answers *byoder(); | | uunet!ucla-cs!smcnet!byoder | He takes no arguments and returns the answers | -<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-<>-