WHO ARE THE BUSH SUPPORTERS?

I just read the following statement in "Make Them Accountable" by Carolyn Kay.

"I guess we can conclude that Republicans won't believe anything bad about President Junior, no matter what the evidence".- Caro]

I break these Bush supporters down into different categories...

1. Card-carrying Clinton-haters. If there's anything bad or wrong with what's happening today, it's Clinton's fault!!!!

2. Totally uninformed Americans who come from 'republican' backgrounds and would never change. These people don't even bother to inform themselves...they are republicans, they're satisfied that there's a republican in charge....all's right with the world!! Whatever goes wrong, it's not his fault!!

3. Badly misinformed (or lied to) average Americans who get what little "news" they do get from the corrupt corporate media...Fox, CNN, right-wing talk shows. The lies they hear on Fox are repeated on CNN and again and again on other right-wing shows. It must be the truth of course.....how could it not be....they're all saying it!!

4. Blindly religious right...."God is on their side" naturally, and Bush can do no wrong because he has been "saved". He's leading the crusade of our wonderful nation (under God) against those evil-doers. God bless our president.....God bless America!!!

5. Otherwise fairly intelligent average people who are suffering from the phenomenon of cognitive dissonance......trying to reconcile two opposing cognitions (facts)

a. They voted for Bush....they supported him....they learned to hate his opponent. GO GO GO Bush!!! Damn the torpedoes!!!!

b. They can see all the harm he has done and continues to do, BUT they prefer not to think about this since it doesn't support what they had already decided. This little principle of cognitive dissonance causes more mischief in the world....in personal relationships, in families, and in politics.

And I feel strongly that the blame for the first three categories rests squarely on the American lying media, without which Bush would never have been "elected" in the first place, and who have refused to exercise their almost sacred duty to investigate and report the truth.

And there, again, cognitive dissonance rears its ugly head. These reporters are intelligent people who KNOW they failed us, who SEE what's happening, but who would have to admit their failure in order to publish the truth now. Everything that's happening was totally forseeable and predictable.....it didn't just happen!! Hell, if I could see it even before the beginning of the presidential campaign in 2000, certainly these trained reporters could have seen it........no?

But, as always, the question remains....What's to be done about any of this?

There's no way the people who hate Clinton are ever going to start loving him. We can't force people to inform themselves. We will never change the minds and hearts of the ultra-religious factions.

It looks like our only hope rests in a change of heart in our media....not likely!!!

We can continue increasingly to spread the good word through this wonderful medium of the internet.....we can protest publicly in greater and greater numbers.....we can exercise our right of civil disobedience.....or.......

We can just let Bush and his perfidious cronies continue their evil programs until what they're doing becomes SO obvious that they will eventually hang themselves. ....and all the while we can pray real hard that this happens before he leads us gloriously into Armageddon.

From my mouth to God's ears!!!!

Matilda Lipscomb 
matilda@letstalksense.com