Our Arrogance Will be the End of Us

[NVMojo]

08/27/05 "ICH" -- -- “At first, I thought ‘How dare you say that about my America,’ she said looking at me through squinted eyes, “but then I saw it, our arrogance will be the end of us.”

She explained to me how she and her husband voted for Bush. She said they were conservative and watched Fox News regularly; however, something touched her in seeing and hearing everyday people from around the world talk about her beloved country as a bully; a hypocrite. Something touched her when faced with the sobering charge of War Crimes and the images of torture at the hands of Americans under orders from the US Government. Something touched her that day that made her think about what she thought she knew.

This woman said these things to me after watching a test screening of a new documentary called Internationally Speaking.

I’ve been doing this, political activism, a short time, relatively; but it never ceases to amaze me how much people care. How one instant, one piece of information can open a person’s mind to something they didn’t see before.

More and more American citizens are losing support for Bush and losing support for this war in Iraq. They are learning certain things, with increasing speed. These things the activist community knew before the war started: that we were opening a dangerous can of worms by attacking Iraq.

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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10008.htm

[indepat]

1. Sadly nothing seems to touch the religious zealots and other ideologues

who support absolutely every policy and action this Administration takes, no matter how obviously wrong-headed, no matter how clearly disastrous the effect.

[rbjensen]

2. Take heart

I've known a lot of fundies in my life and eventually all but the most ardent (and there aren't that many) can hang with the program for a lifetime. They "backslide" and go back to being regular people. It's hard to keep that level of self-delusion up. Even the Mormons (to me, the MOST delusional) end up with a whole lot of EX-Mormons.

[wli]

3. perhaps a freeper reeducation reading list is in order n/t