Now that Georgie has lost the Election...

[redsonia]

Originally Posted by Dagney

Okay, I REALLY need someone to explain to me (apparently because I'm stupid) why someone who voted for Bush is a retarted rabbit.

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You may not be happy with what happened last night. You may be plotting to have Ohio surgically removed from the union. You may even be thinking about moving to Canada (mapquest has good directions....have at it). But why does a difference in opinion make someone stupid?

We had this discussion last night, while watching the election returns. I have voted before, many times, and my choice has lost sometimes. I have never felt as much rage and befuddlement as I have felt during this election. I think, more than anything, it's the war in Iraq.

Economic and domestic differences are minor compared to the fact that innocent people (i.e. collateral damage) are being killed regularly by American forces. People who vote for George Bush are endorsing this kind of behaviour and I feel it's a divide I cannot bridge.

I have to believe it's stupidity of the sort herd animals exhibit when blindly following a herd leader. Otherwise, it's a deliberate decision on the American voter's part that other people in the world are not worth as much as Americans are. ("If we fight the terror war in Iraq, they'll leave the U.S. alone." Why is an Iraqi child worth less than an American one?) If our vote is deliberate rather than sheer stupidity, I am ashamed to be an American. We are the terrorists in Iraq, and we deserve what we get. And George Bush will NEVER get his hands on my children to fight his senseless, evil wars.

[iamthewalrus109]

All of this talk of George Bush's evilness and the evil nature of all his pursuits begs the question: Isn't he just a manifestation of this country's essence? Sure America gets what it deserves, because America was asleep making money while our government, our miltary, and corporate eminsaries of our government and military were raping the world. Why wake up now? It was all fun and games when times were good and the World Trade Center was still standing, who cares at the time if we're funding groups that lead to the death and opression of thousands of people while claiming to look for fair settlements, freedom and peace, we were drinking lattes and making money. Now when the preverbial shit hits the fan, no one wants to commit to the Militrary-globalist-imperial-capitalisitc machine that keeps all our fat mouths and egos fed. Wake up! It's either your part of the team or not It's either your for oppressive global trade and military practices that slant economic trends towards the US or not, there's no in between. People really think at this point we can turn around and live our little greedy lives withough fitting the bill, they're wrong. It's either we give up a hell of a lot, or we continue to fight these wars, bottom line. If you don't like, quit your job and take up arms, mobilize a formidible opposition, or be part of the pillaging and war machine, otherwise your just straddling the fence I'm afraid.

-Walrus