Reverend Blair said:It has a lot to do with the absolute polarisation of the American people. That began before Bush, actually stretches back to at least Reagan, probably Lincoln, but Bush is the modern poster boy for it.
Haggis McBagpipe said:Reverend Blair said:It has a lot to do with the absolute polarisation of the American people. That began before Bush, actually stretches back to at least Reagan, probably Lincoln, but Bush is the modern poster boy for it.
What you say is true, but still begs the question of why? If I may offer a screwy analogy: if I loved chocolate (ha ha 'if') I would be relatively tolerant of all things chocolate, with a blind eye to many of the downsides of it. Yet if a chunk of chocolate came my way that was too obviously wrong, was moldy and nasty-tasting, it would be, regardless of my love of chocolate, just too much to ignore.
I would spit it out.
So why is it that such large numbers of American citizens are not seeing the obviously moldy chocolate staring them right in the face? Why are they seemingly happy to have another FOUR BLOODY YEARS of moldy chocolate?
Why won't they just spit it out?
Andem said:To be honest, Haggis, I think you would have to dive deep into the mind of the average American person. They are fed such rubbish through the media (CNN, ABC, NBC, FOX) and all of the mistakes (as we see them) of the American administration are justified in the minds of the American people. It is the media which controls the minds, and they just don't realise it.
They don't see the president as a bad apple. If only more people watched Fahrenheit 9/11.
zenfisher said:That's the thing...the media is afraid to take on a lot of issues,because they are afraid they will never get another interview and lawsuits. So we get crap for news down here. Then you get all the propaganda from both parties, which is less than informative. People have trouble discerning what is really happening.
The other influnce is that they are basically limited to two parties. Sure the Greens, Liberterians and Independents run, but they are virtually shut out of the mainstream media by the other two parties. Thus, they are of little consequence in the election.
zenfisher said:Its fear. people are afraid to turf a wartime President. Even if he was the one that started the war. That is what the American public forgets...he started this war. There was no covert action by Iraq. The US was not directly attacked by Iraq. In the past, you didn't vote out the President because he was defending the country. I only hope that the American public realize that this had nothing to do with terrorism. This was an invasion of a country, which goes against several treaties the US had signed.