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

doc454 doc454 at prodigy.net
Wed Nov 3 23:03:14 UTC 2004


I saw a message on another list from someone distraught abut the results of
the election.They concluded with the statement   " I didn't realize the
country was that (insert choice words here) "
Yes it appears that the country is that (______)!!!!! I think the word that
applies is Vengeful.  Since 9/11 the majority of Americans have wanted a
president that will go out and kick some Arab butt. It doesn't seem to
matter that they were not directly or even indirectly involved in the
attacks. When I try to explain that Sadam was hated by Bin Ladin and would
have never co-operated on anything they they just reply 'they're all Arabs
so they must have been in it together'. Security was one of the issues that
turned the election. "What good is a job if you get blown up on the way to
the grocery?" These same people were drawn to the poles in Ohio and 10 other
states by the issue of Gay Marriage. I've heard these people say they don't
care if someone is gay as long as they don't rub my face in it. Equating
gayness with something you wouldn't want your face rubbed in. They wanted
vengeance against those that would put the issue on the ballot. This is why
pure democracy would never work. Lynch mobs would rule. This has made me
ashamed to have been a conservative republican most of my life. The vitriol
and hate on the left was just as bad they just didn't have the numbers. I
still couldn't bring myself to vote for Kerry. When you vote for the lesser
of two evils you still get evil. That's why I was one of 640 in Montgomery
county that voted for Badnarik.
.

Thanks for listening.

Scott

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Lee" <brian_a_lee at hotmail.com>
To: <pharos at gmail.com>; <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] Aw Nuts! Bush Wins...


> 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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