The Political Culture of the United States
Joy, Dan
Corrospondence To the Editor: It was very interesting to read the book review on The New Totalitarians by Roland Huntford in your October issue. But, frankly, I got quite astonished. The way...
...Sincerely, Kevin Mayfield Oenton, Texas To the Editor: I dont know how we got on it in the first place, but I would greatly appreciate your removing WJBL from your mailing list...
...And the two are very slightly related...
...Non-Scandinavian westerners like Huntford and Shorey are often aware of the fact that the situation in Sweden today is deplorable...
...Osterfeld's case is still good...
...I think this is the way many people, e.g., in the United States, have come to the belief that the Swede is living in his "spiritual desert" because of some sexual emancipation or sex revolution...
...Weil, thah ail from hear...
...Whether you like it or not, George McGovern and his ideas have become a serious force in American politics, and you are performing a grave disservice to your readers when you dismiss him with alleged humor...
...To the Editor: I must tell you how simply dreadful your October editorial was...
...Sweden is not an experiment in sexual emancipation, it is an experiment in establishing dictatorship...
...Peace, Ador Stanakowski Washington, D.C...
...Yours, Lemuel R. Boulware New York, N.Y...
...But this is perhaps the smartest ever invented...
...This is the progressive disappearance of the industry's bottom-priced items which controls always cause through disrupting and reducing the output of the very goods most wanted and needed by lower-income citizens...
...Second, where price controls are used to satisfy the political necessity of squeezing profit and they always are there is an effect in addition to those the writer covers...
...That history is running true to form in this respect is seen in the auto makers severely thinning the bottom of their 1973 lines and emphasizing the proliferation of the models at the next step up the price scale where some profit is still possible...
...where our "neutrality" allows the government to send nearly $100,000,000 (a gigantic amount in Sweden) to Hanoi...
...We have seen many ways in which the communists have seized power and established totalitarianism in Europe...
...Two conservative MPs that were foolish enough to imply that they believed that North Vietnam had invaded South Vietnam last Easter were told by a party colleague in Parliament to shut up...
...where the television broadcasts anti-American "hatred programs" that quite resemble those described in George Orwell's 1984 day after day...
...To tell you, I don't like being back at the Ford Plant after so many years in competition...
...The creation of two extra Communist parties and infiltration within the non-Communist parties changed the political climate completely...
...Very truly yours, John M. Windover News Editor Holland, Michigan To the Editor: Yore magazine have made my day...
...The New Leftist attack on Sweden in the middle of the 60s proved itself very successful...
...But must you use so many big words...
...The way Roland Huntford and reviewer Kenneth Paul Shorey seem to have understood the development in Sweden during the last decade is very strange...
...While all the country's so-called leading journalists are tripping all over themselves trying to analyze the McGovern phenomenon, you lightly (and correctly, to my mind) dismiss him as the fool he is...
...Praise be to you for the work that you are doing...
...You will be glad to no that Seymor Stanslokazana is still carrying the colors sf the Detroit Brush Club high and swept all the world titles lest year...
...Mark Morrison Madison, Wisconsin To the Editor: I am currently a freshman at North Texas State University, and my feelings upon receiving your magazine are those of a sanitation worker caught in a sewer who stumbles upon a gas mask...
...The volume shifted from the marginal producers to the few remaining most efficient producers may temporarily absorb enough overhead or may justify some very quickly available advance in equipment to "lengthen the arms" and cut the number of the now overpaid workers so that prices may not have to be immediately raised nor production immediately cut...
...Soon they controlled not only the student majority, but also the whole educational system in most of our universities...
...Sally Ward, Cleveland, Ohio The major achievement of the McGovern candidacy is that he is attempting to bring moral leadership to the country, and this is the one issue which conservatives consistently are unable to comprehend...
...Even if such a statement were true (I personally regard it as a myth, though), it cannot be the whole truth about why the Swede has been duped the way he has...
...First, the unearned increased wage, which puts the marginal producers out of business, may not always necessitate an immediate drop in production or increased industry price...
...I realize I am "carrying coals to Newcastle" in suggesting that two minor amplifications of what is said in the latter's second and third full paragraphs in the third column on page 21 just might prove helpful in some dialogue on the subject...
...One of the major problems with people like you is that you fail to come to grips with reality, and instead of arguing the merits of the case you always resort to ad honrinum arguments.u always resort to ad honrinum arguments...
...However, this is so temporary a state that Mr...
...To the Editor: I must tell you how much I enjoyed your editorial in the October issue...
...After a long day at the floor sweeping the plant, it are enjoyable to relax to the truth...
...Perhaps you are all too busy counting your money to take the time to try to understand a higher level of thought...
...The label "New Totalitarians" is very suitable on people who slowly are made to love a system that makes themselves insane...
...The volume of trash we throw out every week is big enough as it is...
...The result today is: Sweden, once a peaceful, withdrawn, and rather conservative country, has become a place where no paper dares to make a pro-American statement (e.g., that the U.S.A...
...Osterfeld...
...Congratulations again to both you and Mr...
...But in their analysis of it they try to find a specific Swedish "state of mind" or a national vice...
...is a democracy...
...This only gets more and more macabre...
...This meant that almost 100 percent of the journalists today are communists...
...Step by step the revolutionaries seized power of the state-owned monopoly radio and TV company...
...Sincerely, Anders Enhamre Stockholm, Sweden To the Editor: Congratulations on your October issue in general and on David Osterfeld's article in particular...
Vol. 6 • January 1973 • No. 4
