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Since change, whether it be a rock eroding over thousands of years, or the bending of pitch between one note to another, tends to be so slight that it cannot be measured in proper degrees, man tends to label and categorize experiences in order to more easily associate one to another.
I believe that certain minds choose the "easy way out": they choose to perceive things within a minimal set of degrees. "If I'm not always wrong, I'm always right" or "If you're not with us, you're against us".
Invariably, those with lesser capacity for reason tend to side with others who they find agreeable, for any number of random, personally determined reasons based in one's life experience.
These people are the ones who are deeply affected by Bush's cowboy PR stunts, his appeals to patriotism, his sanctimonious smirk, his "everyman" mispronunciations, his religious rhetoric, and his narrow-minded firmness on every issue.
This man has manipulated literally millions of Americans into believing that he is a true patriot with the good of the common man in mind. His flaws only serve to endear him to his fawning audience of supporters, and it will take nothing short of a mass de-programming to save America from the symbolic, cultist mentality it has sunken into.
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