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Article: Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War.(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- November 13, 2007
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Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War. By Joe Bageant. Crown, 273 pp., $25.00.
IF SOCIAL DEMOCRACY is ever again to be taken seriously in this country, its proponents have to admit that much of the American working class--upon whom their hopes for a more egalitarian society must ride--is, despite its seeming best interests, immune to the appeal of social democracy. But it is hard for a social democrat to say so without sounding--well, undemocratic.
It is a bit easier to brood about false consciousness and to avow that most working-class Americans are "dumber than a sack of hair" if you are a social democrat speaking of your own ...