Sorry I've been away, but Blogger wouldn't let me into my edit function until just now. No telling how long this situation will last, so I'm grabbing a little posting time while I can.
So, now that Kerry has conceded, can we please get back on track with the impeachment proceedings?
Something a coworker said to me this morning still reverberates in my brain. A Bush voter, she found it fascinating how the country broke out this time into the red and blue states, with the Northeast and West Coast going for Kerry and - and these are her exact words - the "real Americans" voting for Bush. I made a halfhearted attempt at being glib and immediately responded, "Well, as a member of the reality-based community I believe I take great offense at not being thought of as real," but in a way she's right. These are God-fearing people in every sense of the word (emphasis on both "God" and "fearing"), and once one concedes that fact it's not hard to see how Bush won their popular vote. It's like Mark Morford noted in his column today:
We are seeing the merging of church and state, and along with it the institutionalization of state-sanctioned bigotry. Welcome to the Fourth Reich. God help us all.
So, now that Kerry has conceded, can we please get back on track with the impeachment proceedings?
Something a coworker said to me this morning still reverberates in my brain. A Bush voter, she found it fascinating how the country broke out this time into the red and blue states, with the Northeast and West Coast going for Kerry and - and these are her exact words - the "real Americans" voting for Bush. I made a halfhearted attempt at being glib and immediately responded, "Well, as a member of the reality-based community I believe I take great offense at not being thought of as real," but in a way she's right. These are God-fearing people in every sense of the word (emphasis on both "God" and "fearing"), and once one concedes that fact it's not hard to see how Bush won their popular vote. It's like Mark Morford noted in his column today:
People want to believe. They want to trust their leaders, even against all screaming, neon-lit evidence and stack upon stack of flagrant, impeachment-grade lie. They simply cannot allow that Dubya might really be an utter boob and that they are being treated like an abused, beaten housewife who keeps coming back for more, insisting her drunk husband didn't mean it, that she probably had it coming, that the cuts and bruises and blood and broken bones are all for her own good.We have underestimated evangelical fervor at our peril. People want to believe so much they'll willingly put blinders on and vote against their best interests because God (through Bush) told them to, you see. And the more things fall apart around them, the more stubborn they get about clinging to those beliefs, even if the people they believe in are the ones causing stuff to fall apart.
We are seeing the merging of church and state, and along with it the institutionalization of state-sanctioned bigotry. Welcome to the Fourth Reich. God help us all.
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