Thursday, June 09, 2005

 

"We Gotta Get Outta This Place" -- A Useful Exchange Of Views

Steve Gilliard and driftglass have an eloquent debate about when America might come to its senses, and how we might then go about unscrewing the pooch. (driftglass thinks liberals and conservatives are so far apart in perceptions, it's like we're different computers running on completely different operating systems.) From driftglass:

Most of these people [Bush voters] are not Nazis, but they are the perfect raw material for our own, homegrown American Rightwing Demagogues; obedient, stupid, bigoted and easily frightened.

And because everything – their very souls – rest on the foundation of the infallibility of Dear Leader, they’ll happily kill anyone in any numbers who might force them to face up to the fact that Dear Leader is a duplicitous, lying sleazebag who has played on their fear and ignorance and patriotism to turn them out like $2 crack whores.

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The bad news is, until they wake the fuck up, these people are slaves, and there is no one so ferocious as a brainwashed thrall defending his owner.

The good news is, we are still 49% of the game; wake up and pick off a mere 100,000 and we can begin to turn a lot of thinks around. The more gooder news is that our O/S thrives best when saturated in pure, clean Reality, and theirs rust and rots and flies apart at the seams when the lies that insulate it are peeled away.

There's much more useful stuff here, about the fundie mindset, and the shitstorm we can expect from them when their Potemkin facade collapses. Go. Read.

posted by Michael 9:01 AM