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...who dis the "red" states, and say this and that about what people in the "red" states think, that I DO NOT KNOW HOW THE "RED" STATES VOTED, and until I see some clean, fair and transparent election results, I will make no judgments.
I suspect that at least half a dozen "red" states actually went "blue."
The red state/blue state thing is silly anyway because, even in the fraudulent election results, some 45% to 49% of the voters in most "red" states voted "blue."
This is Bush Inc.'s biggest mistake, in my opinion (besides being too greedy in the manufactured votes department): You can't govern just half the country. And if you try to, your enemies will never rest until they see you stripped of your power.
The President of the United States is supposed to represent ALL of the people. This one clearly has no intention of doing so, not even on a token basis such that all Americans can feel themselves to be part of America, when they look at the President, even if they have different party membership and beliefs.
There has never been such a divisive president in my lifetime, and I don't think there has been in U.S. history (except for the unusual circumstance of the Civil War). It's not just a matter of partisanship. This goes far, far beyond partisanship, and reaches into who you are, what your religious beliefs are, how wealthy you are, and what color your skin is. If you don't fit their model of American--Bush worshiping, white, Christian fundamentalist bigot with an American flag lapel and a fat bank account--you are under suspicion and you are not really an American.
This is the most dangerous poison I have ever seen infect our society, and I lived through the McCarthy era, segregation and a lot of other bad stuff. What Bush is stirring up in people is so sick I can't even believe it. What they have done--or are trying to do--is to mainstream white Christian bigotry.
At least during segregation, when it finally got on the TV screens, the rest of society looked on aghast at the ugly face of that blatant bigotry and unfairness, and judged it to be alien and un-American, and it was EXPECTED that the president and Congress would do something about (which they did). Whatever we may think of continuing racial prejudice in our society, at least it's not legal any more.
As for McCarthyism, it spun itself out, and never had the support of the President of the United States. It, too, was an aberration that was rejected by most Americans (surprising, too, since the war on communism continued for some time).
Bush, though, is trying to mainstream the worst tendencies in western society--white tribalism, religious war, 19th century religious bigotry, "cleansed" thinking (Puritanism and Cromwellism), wealth = God's favor, witch burning, and the whole shipload of putrid baggage from old Europe that the American Revolutionaries REJECTED, and specifically sought to prevent ever taking root here, and wrote strong prohibitions against (except for white tribalism--that came later).
But, bad as this is, I have continuing faith in the sturdiness of what those Founders laid down, and in the universal principles of democracy that they formulated, and that resonate with most Americans--freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and government by consent of the people.
We should be concerned that some percentage of the people who voted in the last election (who knows what it was? --could be as high as 48%) don't believe in those principles any more, or got fooled as to what they were voting for.
Maybe Bush Triumphant, the crowned head of Holy Roman Empire II, will wake some of them up. Some percentage of them (I think about 20%) have always been with us, and always will be (those who seek illegitimate power over others--Bush's "base").
But I firmly believe--and all the evidence supports this--that Americans resoundingly rejected this phony little would be Charlemagne and his one-religion power game. They saw right through it. They voted him out.
Trouble is, they don't know it. And so that's our task--those of us who DO know it. And, really, I wouldn't buy into red state/blue state. We simply don't know where democracy-minded citizens may be found, and they are certainly far more numerous than Bush Inc. and its lapdog news media would like us to think.
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