[extropy-chat] Aw Nuts! Bush Wins...

BillK pharos at gmail.com
Wed Nov 3 10:45:11 UTC 2004


On Wed, 3 Nov 2004 11:17:43 +0100, Amara Graps wrote:
> 
> I am so disappointed. How could Bush win the popular vote? I don't
> understand this; no one I spoke with here understands it either. Also,
> I suspect it won't be easy for Americans with nonAmericans in the future.
> I heard often in the last years that 'Americans simply made a
> mistake',with regards to the Bush administration, and so they cleanly
> separated the American people from their government, and expected the
> Americans to 'set things right' in this election. Now Americans will be
> much more closely aligned with their government in the eyes of many in
> the world.
> 

Bush won the popular vote in the face of unremitting opposition from
virtually all the liberal, intellectual writers and artists. All the
opinion columns, media sources, leader writers, etc. in US and around
the world have been almost unanimous in opposition to Bush.

Why? I suspect that a lot of the Bush support comes from people who
never read the writers output. I think they are writing for each
other, mutual support and back-scratching.

One theory is that the liberal intellectuals (especially European, but
world-wide) have been lost for years since the failure of socialism
and they have now united in anti-Americanism. Kerry has been trying to
say that it is not really anti-Americanism, that it is anti-Bushism.
(Vote for me and the world will love the US again!) But this is hardly
believable.

If you accept the 'War on Terror' then regardless of who is President,
the anti-Americanism will continue. And Bush is better at the 'War on
Terror' than Kerry would have been.

BillK



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