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Conservative's won't check it out unless somebody reads it aloud on AM radio and interupts the text every few moments to tell somebody to shut up or call them a traitor!
Just kidding.
But, I'd say the odds of getting people to read Chomsky, Howard Zinn, or any of the other great and current liberal humanist writers is pretty slim. I've stated my opinon before that the type of personality that is attracted to the highly conservative (and I do mean the US variety of conservatism, as it's quite a bit different from conservative politics almost anywhere else) thrives on feeling correct and is if they are taking the common sense appraoch in the face of stupidity.
The success of pundits like O'Reilly, Anne Colttier, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Limbaugh, and the rest of the good squad is their repetitous balthering about how stupid anybody who doesn't see things their was is (liberals) and how people that don't agree with them politically are traitors or mentally disturbed. They don't debate issues or explore historical, social, and political questions like Chomsky or others might - they just shout down everything around them and repeat standard opinions they know their audiences already agree with.
Read a few chapters out of Chomsky
Just kidding.
But, I'd say the odds of getting people to read Chomsky, Howard Zinn, or any of the other great and current liberal humanist writers is pretty slim. I've stated my opinon before that the type of personality that is attracted to the highly conservative (and I do mean the US variety of conservatism, as it's quite a bit different from conservative politics almost anywhere else) thrives on feeling correct and is if they are taking the common sense appraoch in the face of stupidity.
The success of pundits like O'Reilly, Anne Colttier, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage, Limbaugh, and the rest of the good squad is their repetitous balthering about how stupid anybody who doesn't see things their was is (liberals) and how people that don't agree with them politically are traitors or mentally disturbed. They don't debate issues or explore historical, social, and political questions like Chomsky or others might - they just shout down everything around them and repeat standard opinions they know their audiences already agree with.
Read a few chapters out of Chomsky