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  • From: "clanSkeen" <sgian AT planetc.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] two Americas
  • Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 20:44:19 -0500

There are of course scores of post-mortem blurbs I could copy and forward expressing the other side of Toni's forward. But you've probably read several of them. I know I've read through plenty of "Open Letters to the Red States" and many, many comentaries such as the one proffered in this thread.

Here are a couple of points I'd make. Most of angst from those who are having a hard time handling the results of the election are based on the Boogie Man created by Kerry and the media than it is from any real or proposed action of the administration. Not all of it, to be sure, but most of it.

Second, the same way the left is wagging it's head in disbelief now, I was witness to groups of conservatives before the election wagging their heads in a similar manner saying "Aren't these people paying attention to what Kerry is saying? How could someone possible vote for him, I just don't get it!" The notion that Bush was reelected by a lot of mindless fundies rushing out on the 2nd saying "Gotta vote for the Lawwwd" doesn't stand up to inspection. Sure, a lot of that was the platform of Boogie Man just like the other side was doing. But most of the people I knew who voted for Bush were intelligent and well informed.

The very same way the liberals are aghast that an administration would want to get into their bedrooms and wombs where it doesn't belong, the conservatives had exactly the same sentiment about their pockets, their gun cabinets, their private property ... where they strongly, strongly feel the government doesn't belong.

These are the things the left must endeavor to understand if ever they are to get the rest of the country to consider any validity in their political stance.

James





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