"escapee" wrote in message
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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.

Bush, on the radio this morning - something like "Anyone can be a war
president. I wanna be a PEACE president". Jeez.........isn't this the same
chimp who was waving his pee-pee around not long ago, saying he was a war
president?

What's sad is that anyone without learning problems will rise to the
expectations of peers, and (I firmly believe) anyone else who challenges
them. I'd faint if a candidate or president said "Look...if I told you I
could turn the economy around, I'd be lying to you. Go to my web site.
There's a list of books and links that'll explain why the economic situation
we're in today is the result of a mixture of policies dating back between 5
and 20 years".

Can you imagine? A politician asking his constituents to turn off the TV,
read, and think, like REAL citizens should?