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

[Brian Lee]

It seemed like a lot of anti-Bush sentiment prior to the election was by 
dems, for dems. Take F9/11 for example: anti-Bushers loved it, pro-Bushers 
hated it. I don't know anyone who changed their opinion because of it. I now 
suspect that stuff like Fareinheight 9/11 galvanized republicans to vote to 
counteract perceived increase in democrats voting.

What puzzles me is how so many first time voters went for Bush. I expected 
all of the increase in new voter registrations to be anti-Bush. Wierd.

BAL

>From: BillK <pharos at gmail.com>
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
>Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Aw Nuts! Bush Wins...
>Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 10:45:11 +0000
>
>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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