From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 07 2002 - 12:36:39 MDT
Olga Bourlin wrote:
>
> > Mike Lorrey wrote:
>
> > The average consumer believes astrology more than astronomers, and
> organic
> > hippie farmers more than geneticists. The fact that it is dippy hippy
> > left wingers who have promoted the twin idiocies of astrology AND
> GM-phobia > in the last 20 years should be no surprise or coincidence. They
> are both based on > ignorance, fear, and stupid gullibility bordering on the
> mentally retarded, just the
> > sort of electorate that socialists need to get into and keep power.
>
> Gadzooks, all this time I thought astrology was not something only left
> wingers followed. (Let us not forget Nancy Reagan's personal astrologer,
> who fed Nancy lines to whisper to our-then President Reagan, if you want to
> talk about about a scary scenario!) In fact, I don't personally know ANY
> left wingers (and I know a whole battalion of bleeding hearts) who follow
> astrology (although I'm certain they exist, along with about as many
> right-wing astrology buffs).
Both Nancy and Ron were originally semi-socialist Hollywood types until
they started to hear about what was really going on behind the iron
curtain (and unlike most lefties, didn't choose to ignore it). They both
remained more motivated by anecdotal evidence and personal experiences
of people rather than facts and reason throughout their lives.
I know many astrology buffs and they are almost exclusively left
wingers. On my little venture into the hippie world at the Rainbow
Gathering a couple years ago, I saw more astrologers (and believers) per
acre than I'll be anybody has ever seen outside of Fremont, WA and a
large chunk of california.
Now, there is a difference between atheist lefties and pagan-type
lefties in their belief in astrology. Atheists generally are less
inclined to astrology, while the pagan types are almost 100% for it. I
don't know many atheist or pagan right wingers outside the libertarian
party.
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