The Republican Big Lie - And How it Really Works

[pdmike]

Ever wonder why it is that your average, working guy probably has a Bush sticker on his car,listens to Rush on the radio and plans to vote Republican all the way in November, at the same time his party of choice is screwing him up one side and down the other and has been for decades?

Last time I looked, WE were supposed to be the party of the downtrodden worker, victimized by management and big business.

If this question has ever popped into your head, PLEASE locate and read the following article: "Lie Down For America - How the Republican Party Sows Ruin on the Great Plains," by Thomas Frank. The article appears in the April, 2004 edition of Harper's Magazine.

This highly informative article attempt to explain this apparent paradox by giving dozens of examples of the Republican Big Lie and how it has been (and is being) used on middle class America to deceive them into thinking that Republicanism is the only thing that is going to save them from the "elitist left" in this country.

Must reading!

pdmike

[tom_paine]

1. Got a link?

[never cry wolf]

2. Here's one

Apparently the original isn't online.

http://vax.area.com/marc/liedown.txt

Now, I gotta go read it.

[LittleApple81]

3. I found somebody who typed the whole thing himself/herself and put it on

the web.
Here is the address:

http://vax.area.com/marc/liedown.txt

I guess you can put it in your word processor and read it...