Bush like Me

[Pikku]

From http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6539082?rnd=1097543908430&has-player=true&version=6.0.8.1024

I really hope this is not a repeat.

(snip)
Ten weeks undercover in the grass roots of the Republican Party
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This is the wrong approach. As a professional misanthrope, I believe that if you are going to hate a person, you ought to do it properly. You should go and live in his shoes for a while and see at the end of it how much you hate yourself.

This was what I was doing down in Florida. The real challenge wasn't just trying to understand these Republicans. It was to become the best Republican I could be.
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During my time on the campaign, I noticed an unusual phenomenon. The more involved a person was with the campaign, the more likely he was to be politically moderate. Most of the core group of our office -- Vienna, Rhyan, Ben, Don -- were quietly pro-choice or socially liberal in some other respect. It was the casual volunteers and the people whose only involvement was a bumper sticker who were likely to rant about liberals being traitors and agents of Islamo-Fascism who should be exiled from the country or jailed, etc.

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They are not looking for facts with which to defeat opponents. They are looking for facts that ensure them an ever-expanding roster of opponents. They can be correct facts, incorrect facts, irrelevant facts, it doesn't matter. The point is not to win the argument, the point is to make sure the argument never stops.

[indigobusiness]

1. Interesting

Thanks, I hadn't seen this.

Clever approach...insightful.

[Spiffarino]

2. Great article

I bumped into it yesterday quite by accident. Not only funny, but very eye-opening. I always thought in the back of my mind there were a lot of bigots in the GOP, but Taibbi's article puts their blatant racism in stark relief.

It's a short article and well worth the time it takes to read. I urge everybody to get on it.

A word of warning though...it does contain offensive language.