RE: AUT: America Implodes

[Chris Carlsson <ccarlsson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is getting somewhere now... Easy to chortle along with Thiago's
earlier slam on American proles. And as Angela points out, it says more
about the speaker than the reference (self-consciously says the
chortler). American lifestyles may be fucked up but the real issue does
seem to be one of simple truth. I find myself unexpectedly stunned by
the results, for the simple reason that I really can't believe a
plurality of 55 million people are that committed to denying the
overwhelming preponderance of evidence about the Bush regime's
corruption, venality, vindictiveness, incompetence, and brutal
barbarism. Not to mention that most of the policies and practices are
demonstrably harmful to the present and future of the people who support
it! The information is certainly readily available, and the other 50
million (who live all over the country too) didn't have any trouble
figuring that out, regardless of the Democrats' or Kerry's general
unlikability... I'm sure ideology informs my thinking in many respects,
but I really have a hard time digesting such an open repudiation of
rational thinking, of relating to reality...
2 cents,
--Chris

Thiago Oppermann wrote:

>On 4/11/2004 4:12 PM, ".: s0metim3s :." <s0metim3s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>And, what "implosion" are we talking about,
>>exactly?  Seems to me the "implosion" is in the
>>Left's expectations (the expectation that Bush
>>wouldn't win again; Howard wouldn't win again),
>>most of which were based on the wacky notion that
>>politics (any politics, including the Left's) is a
>>rational affair.
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>True - but that's not what I am talking about. I am talking about the
>implosion that has just vastly accelerated in the US. An implosion,  a
>violent movement inwards. That's the lesson taught by the Bush voters: the
>lack of correspondence of doctrine to exterior fact is irrelevant, what is
>relevant is the perfect correspondence of doctrine and interior fact. The
>reason the absence of WMDs in Iraq doesn't change people's opinion that
>there are WMDs in Iraq is that "WMDs" and "Iraq" are not things out there
>you could go check up on. They are inside. It's there, I think, that the
>American public is running in a hurry.
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>Thiago
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