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Merrick
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Re: Kerry's fault? - pt2
Nov 04, 2004, 17:44
"a significant number of Bush supporters must have bought into his "Axis of Evil" bullshit."

The good/evil thing was crucial. Karl Rove (Bush's chief nazi and pupeteer) said last time there were around three and a half million radical christians who didn't vote, and who he beleived would vote Bush if only they could be motivated to vote at all. Three and a half million is exactly the size of Bush's majority in the popular vote this time.

Just as Britain is a country only a couple of centuries on from the Enclosures and so has a residual strong class system and get-off-my-land attitude; just as Australia is a couple of centuries on from pioneers with dodgy backgrounds having to force their living from the land and so has a stong streak of unpretentiousness, get-out-and-explore and racism; so the USA is only a couple of centuries on from paranoid persecutied christian puritans deciding they weren't gonna let people who didn't thnk like them run the show any more.

When you have faith and fear, you don't need facts. Even if the facts contradict your faith and fear, you just ignore them.

The report of the US government's 9/11 Commission said there was no evidence of a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda. Not only do most Bush supporters believe there was actually such a link, but - here's the important bit - most believe the evidence has been found.

Most Bush supporters believe the report into Iraqi WMD which said there were none actually said the opposite.

Most Bush voters believe the world favours his re-election despite the opposite being emphatically true.

In all these cases, a majority of Kerry voters disagreed with the Bush voters, ie had a grasp of facts rather than faith.

But as Kerry didn't paint himself as Good fighting Evil, those faith voters - and there are a terifying quantity of them - were never going to listen, no matter what Kerry actually said.

so yes, a large part of the American electorate is indeed stupid in a way that electorates in other powerful nations are not.
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