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

[Sahyinepu]

For one...we are turning into the most hypocritical nation of all.  We 
invade other countries supposedly to liberate them from religious 
oppression...oppression of women, as well as presumably gays, and of 
course, oppression of the sciences.

Meanwhile, we pass oppressive measures like the Patriot Acts I and II, 
make gay marriage and even civil unions illegal, attempt to limit 
contraceptives and abortion for women, and limit and stop scientific 
endeavors, be they in the medical fields or the environmental ones.

We are slowly looking more and more like the countries we claim to 
liberate...we are looking a lot like a theocracy, and less like a 
democracy.  Which begs the question, why even bother to liberate them, 
when we cannot protect and ensure the same freedoms here?

America needs to sit down and shut up.


On Wednesday, November 3, 2004, at 01:25 PM, Al Brooks wrote:

> No, Bush is not the only or most power-oriented; but
> he certainly is motivated by power more than the love
> of Jesus-- so 'technically' he is a fraud, that is to
> say Bush is as power-oriented or more so than the
> average presidential aspirant yet only a truly foolish
> person would take him at his word when he says he
> genuinely represents the higher purpose he presents to
> the world. Bush's overarching goal is to get as many
> of his relatives as practical into office, thereby he
> has a realistic legacy because anyone who gets their
> relatives in power or has relatives who are extremely
> wealthy is realistic is thinking their descendants
> have a better chance of living longer or at least
> continuing the genetic posterity. Only religious nuts
> or utter chumps would con themselves into thinking
> Bush would dedicate his life to politics for the sake
> of Jesus.
>> I'm not saying you are wrong, but I think you
>> wrongly assumed that Bush
>> was the only power-hungry or the most power-hungry
>> individual in the
>> equation here.
>>
>> =====
>> Mike Lorrey
>
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