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To: kodiak_bull who wrote (21137)	8/21/2004 6:04:10 PM
From: Bruce L	Read Replies (1) of 23153

<<The Democrats/liberals ... are now caught in the very emotional sway of the poisonous stuff that the Dem brain stem feeds them..... It's very interesting to hear the common Democrat wax long and eloquent about the corruption, cowardice, conniving fascism and oppression of the current administration (almost certainly without any experience whatsoever of corrupt or fascist goverance.).... One cannot, in essence, have a deep and constructive conversation with liberals until they untie themselves from the emotional ideas which they are slave to.>> KB: Very good post. It accurately describes what I see daily. But why? Why are they caught in this emotional sway? How can otherwise intelligent human beings (My experience is that a disproportionate number have science or engineering backgrounds) utter the garbage they do? Why is it seemingly impossible to have a dialogue with them? When confronted with the absurdity of their statements, they may back off from the more extreme statements but will end the dialogue with a statement like 'I can't convince you and you can't convince me.' Why are we having this sharp emotional divide right now in our history? Three and four hundred years ago men were likewise divided by the nuances of religion. There are parallels with the emotional divide of the Vietnam war years. It may be that some portion of the "baby boom" generation have nastolgic memories of what they recall as the black and white choices of those years. But that doesn't explain why members of younger generations are eating up the poisons. Is our society bored? Is there some parallel to 1914 when the world went to war everywhere with wild enthusiasm and seeming relief? I don't know the answers. But I am very disturbed by what I see. Bruce

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