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In Missouri, Donald Trump's image has appeared in a tub of butter. http://www.tabelog.us/articles/donald-trumps-face-in-butter-a-miraculous-omen-or-hypermedia-political-superstition On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:01 AM, Ken Hiebert via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Gary MacLennan said: > > What worries me is that he is getting 40% approval rating. Who are those > guys? > > > Ken Hiebert replies: > It is not unusual for people who are frightened or in despair to cling to > hope. And many people in the US are frightened and in despair. > > I recall a the story of German soldiers at Stalingrad. They were > surrounded and under siege. They heard a battle perhaps 30 miles away. > They were infused with hope that they would be relieved shortly. They > prepared for that by destroying what they could not take with them. They > even burned winter clothing they did not wish to leave behind. > > For many their hopes were expressed in the Stalingrad Madonna. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalingrad_Madonna > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/markalause%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com