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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush

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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (21925)7/10/2003 1:41:18 PM
From: jttmab  Read Replies (4) of 93284
 
Somehow, those 7/10 of the people ended up conflating Al Qaeda with the secular Baa'th Party. Now how did that happen? Exactly the same way that we could learn the list of the Supreme In-Justices. By repetition and rote memorization of fact.

Rote works well, if you want to replace one phrase with another. Or simply learn the name of Justice Scalia. It doesn't work well if you're hoping to accomplish an awakening.

we have a culture of zombies in this nation who get their news from either right wing talk radio ....

You examine why right wing radio is successful and model it [if it doesn't make you vomit too badly]. If you listen to right wing radio and ask yourself the question What is the underlying theme? .... I think there's an obvious answer: greed, a slightly broader view and less perjorative is me. There's a lot of self-centered people that love to hear how the government screwed them; how the people on welfare screwed them; how the minorities take their jobs or get into schools; how the immigrants take their schools over or take from the education system. As long as those illegals work the fields, or the poultry factories or the textile factories and don't get medical care or education that's just peachy keen.....

Maddening to try to break through into their petty little worlds.

Once someone has established a core belief, in this case greed, it's unshakable.

It is rather pathetic to think that they then arrogantly consider themselves to be patriots and better than the rest of the world.

They're more nationalists than they are patriots.

jttmab
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