Ya know, one thing about bush winning; it's very FREEING

[LynnTheDem]

Coz after several years trying to get that horrid ol' REALITY and FACTS across to rightwingnuts, that's just something I never have to bother with any more.

Rightwignnuts are GENETICALLY UNABLE to process FACTS and REALITY.

They voted for a man who is going to make most of them penniless.

They voted for a man who will take away their entire social security. Now, young RWWs don't care, and middle-age ones may not care so much right now either...but are they prepared to either take in their eldery relatives and support them or alternatively just let them die in the street?

They voted for a man who has a net job loss; the last time this happened was the Great Depression and Hoover. And another 100,000 jobs went buh-bye last week. And bush will continue to have job losses. I guess all rightwingnuts are independantly wealthy as well as being stupid.

These morans think Saddam did 911. These morans think we've already found WMD in Iraq. And that there's more still hiding. And that the Iraqis really do love us.

No matter that their very own bush-god and cheney-angel have both publicly said no ties to 911, no WMD.

No matter that every day more American family, friends and neighbors die or are dismembered in Iraq. No matter that every poll done in Iraq, including the CPA's polls, show 98% of the Iraqis hate our guts and see us -gee surprise!- as invaders and occupiers.

The rightwingnut morans simply do not accept FACT and REALITY.

So let bush call his 2% win "historic". Let him call it a "broad nationwide victory", even though he only won the south and parts of the midwest. Forget about the FACT that bush lost the entire west coast, the entire northeast, and most the midwest. Pretend it never happened.

We'll all just pretend it's not true that with the exception of the 2000 election,bush's popular vote margin of about 3.6 million votes (out of approximately 115 million total votes cast) was the smallest since 1976, forget that "it also was the narrowest win for a sitting president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916", forget that percentage-wise, it was the narrowest for any wartime incumbent president in U.S. history

The rest of the planet won't forget that bush is in FACT lying his ass off. And the rest of the planet will again wonder at the startling depth of American ignorance.

But we'll just forget there is anyone else on the planet besides America.

So it's really very freeing; there is absolutely NO SENSE WHATSOEVER in wasting any time trying to point the FACTS and REALITY out to anyone; everyone but rightwingnuts already know, and the rightwingnuts will never know because they don't believe in FACTS and REALITY anyways.

:)

[timtom]

1. That's precisely how I felt in 1980

I watched the Carter-Reagan debate and, the next day, talked to my friend Jim, the Republican. What I had seen in the debate was a very self-assured, intelligent, articulate Carter up against a bumbling, incoherent, idiotic oaf of a failed actor. When I said, "Well, Jim, whaddya think now?"

He responded, "Yeah. My man Ronnie looked GOOD last night."

I knew it was over. I knew that in no way is any of this about truth and reality and critical thinking. I discovered that it was about image, shallowness, cheap tricks.

In the 20+ years since then, I realize that it has always been thus. These are the ones who made Socrates drink the hemlock. These are the ones who crucified Jesus.

Somehow, we at DU (and other areas of somewhat enlightened thought) must continue to fight the good fight. This is not about this political platform or that talking point. This is an ongoing battle against pure evil.

[Piperay]

2. I agree

and was thinking that myself. A couple of days have gone by now since Black Tuesday and I am not feeling nearly as devastated as I was at first. I'll sit back and watch them 'reap what they have sown'. I'll laugh when they wonder what happened to their perfect little World as chimp makes a bigger and bigger disaster of everything he touches. :puke: