Whoa..........Excuse me here, but what in the hell does this discussion have
to do with gardening??!!
Unless you people are trying to develop a verbal fertilizer...........
Now, I don't know about you people, but my list of newsgroups shows plenty
of political NGs.
Why must this migrate here?

You may now, of course, act like children, and ream me for butting in.
Murri

"escapee" wrote in message
...
On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 17:47:15 GMT, "Vox Humana"
opined:

This is an important issue. I don't think that Bush truly is retarded.
He
may be average or slightly above average. He seems to have some verbal
problems that make him appear to be more stupid than he probably is.
However, the stupidity is appealing to his supporters. They don't feel
threatened by complexities that require thinking or that might lead to an
ambiguous conclusion. The neo-cons are all about emotion. If you listen
to
any of the talkers like Hannity and Limbaugh they constantly appeal to
emotions. This is bad, that is good. This is God's way, that is the
devil's way. There is a lot of feel-good flag waiving. Groups are
scapegoated, leading to polarization. Our foreign policy reflects the
good-evil model. One the other hand, liberals are seen as unexciting and
too intellectual. They talk about data points and nuance. Nothing is
completely bad or completely good. Liberal allow for data to be
considered
in context and for that context to change. Change leads to an evolution
in
opinion (AKA - "flip-flopping.") This is all too much for people who
want
the black and white version of things to be handed to them in a
pre-digested
form. Sadly, we have become a nation of people who vote based on whether
a
candidate looks "French" (what ever the hell that means) or if they have
good hair (but not TOO good.) Intellect scares people. Universities are
evil black boxes that turn out bad people (except for the people who
develop
weapon systems.)


Truly, this is the best post I've seen in this newsgroup lately. I also
don't
think Bush is retarded, but I do absolutely believe he has just enough
"dumbdown" to appeal to the toothless. Unfortunately, there are many
toothless
in the U.S.




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