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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan@Sep 5 2004, 09:46 AM
Of course, you can go with Lanny's belief that I'm stupid and have my head buried in the sand...but what I said above makes a lot of sense and are 3 big reasons why I'm leaning toward backing Bush again.
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Actually Dis, I have never said you were the average American. I've always believed that you were a lot smarter than the average American. I still believe that. One thing I do believe is that you are like a lot of Americans, are not being given the whole story and are being fed a steady stream of propaganda which gives you very little to question. I believe we are going through a period no different that McCarthyism, except the Neo-Cons are not playing the "communist" card against their enemies, they're playing the "patriot" card against their enemies. No one dare stand up be counted for fear of being destroyed and publicly humiliated. This is a time in American history that I think 20-30 years from now people will be ashamed of how they refused to stand up to their government. and question their motives. Americans are being lead down a garden path by a bunch of psychotics bent on world domination. We're being fed a kinder gentler form of facism. Its unfortunate that people just can't see the forest for the trees.
As for the "nukem" comment. I stand by it. All you have to do is actually discuss the Middle East issue with the average American for no more than five minutes, and play the other side of the fence (walking a mile in the Arab's sandles so to speak) before you hear the infamous "###### it, nukem" come flying out of their mouths. Its so predictable it isn't even funny. What is funny is that there is a disturbing trend that I have discovered while talking to people and doing some research. The more right wing the individual, the quicker the response is produced. It also coincides with the amount of information that the person has learned in regards to the Middle East. The further right wing the individual, the less informed they are (or care to be) and less motivated to discuss the issue. This is all generalization, but is supported by a trend I have seen speaking with hundreds of people. The two jobs I have (yes, a direct result of living in Bush's new America and finding that job sharing and part time work (counted as job creation btw) is the best one can find in his brilliant solution for economic improvement) give me opportunity to speak people from all walks of life, so its an opinion well defined and not knee jerk, unlike the reaction I get from most people trying to talk politics and the Middle East.