You’ve got me wondering about my dad, a classic New York Jewish liberal Democrat who was also a big fan of Carlton Fredricks’ radio show — with the result that throughout my childhood, his invariable breakfast was a concoction of cottage cheese, canned pineapple, and wheat germ. All very strange.
That's so interesting! Fredericks appeared on the same right wing AM radio station as Walter Huss in the early 1960s in Portland. Diet is one of those areas where it kind of maps on to politics but often really doesn't...or I guess I should say that being drawn to quirky diet advice is something that idiosyncratic folks of all political stripes are often drawn to. My sense is that Huss's clientele at his health food/alternative medicine store in SE Portland was comprised of right wing evangelicals like himself and also the pot-smoking hippies who also lived in the neighborhood.
There are so many reasons to be skeptical about the government and about medical professionals. The lefty skeptics, I find, tend to have better reasons for it, like they're worried about corruption and greed leading people to put their own economic self-interest above the well-being of the public. While those on the right tend to be skeptical because they think it's all part of some vast conspiracy to oppress them that either implicitly or explicitly all goes back to the joos. But on the surface, and when it's just a matter of voting yes or no, these folks often end up on the same side of certain issues (like fluoridation).
You’ve got me wondering about my dad, a classic New York Jewish liberal Democrat who was also a big fan of Carlton Fredricks’ radio show — with the result that throughout my childhood, his invariable breakfast was a concoction of cottage cheese, canned pineapple, and wheat germ. All very strange.
That's so interesting! Fredericks appeared on the same right wing AM radio station as Walter Huss in the early 1960s in Portland. Diet is one of those areas where it kind of maps on to politics but often really doesn't...or I guess I should say that being drawn to quirky diet advice is something that idiosyncratic folks of all political stripes are often drawn to. My sense is that Huss's clientele at his health food/alternative medicine store in SE Portland was comprised of right wing evangelicals like himself and also the pot-smoking hippies who also lived in the neighborhood.
It has always interested me that alternative medicine seems to attract folks on both ends of the political spectrum .
There are so many reasons to be skeptical about the government and about medical professionals. The lefty skeptics, I find, tend to have better reasons for it, like they're worried about corruption and greed leading people to put their own economic self-interest above the well-being of the public. While those on the right tend to be skeptical because they think it's all part of some vast conspiracy to oppress them that either implicitly or explicitly all goes back to the joos. But on the surface, and when it's just a matter of voting yes or no, these folks often end up on the same side of certain issues (like fluoridation).
What a name. I assume it's pronounced "Ho[a]xsey"