Duty to Overcome and Counteract Republican Posturing
[also posted in my Facebook page]
It is imperative that a steady and repeated message against current republican posturing, particularly McCain's almost transparent staging and situational condescension toward supposed "swing" voters (in which he assumes they are dumb enough to think that the mere physical presence of a woman on his ticket is the same as being progressive and in touch with the needs of this country) be delivered unto those we know are intending to vote for McCain but who are, by golly, good honest people, most likely more in tune with the policies of Obama/Biden, but who are for one reason or another immune to either campaigns core message and ideology, and thus vote tradition or fear. In the words of David Duncan wrote in reference to second term Bush supporters (and thus can be applied to potential first term McCain voters [see 90% vote with Bush record]) while he spoke about the atrocities brought upon our land via the Bush administration
"Every time I read my list of the fruits by which we know this administration [Bush], a bunch of Bush people simply stand up and walk out in a fury. As they see it, my list of the specifics of their president's trashing of Creation is a gratuitous trashing of their president. This reaction is remarkable-and crucial, I feel, in our current attempts to be effective writers. The refusal to hear Bush's actual record implies a certain love of land, there's hope buried here--but also a disconnect. Rather than support a president who would stop unleashing the horrors they're infuriated to hear listed, Bush [and McCain] backers simply want us to stop upsetting them with the dread deeds of their man.
"Such people have become closed systems. The biological devastations caused by their own vote is not something they want to know about. A question for us as writers is: should we go on telling them? I don't claim to own the high ground on this quandary, but I do go on telling....This makes it my responsibility, in the attempt to love a neighbor named Bush and his followers, to point out horrific consequences of his administration's actions...
"To their hearts' credit but their imaginations' disgrace, many who are unaware of these devastations insist upon remaining unaware. This, I believe, is the kind of mental impasse C.G. Jung was referring to when he said that national psychosis is more powerful than our power to change it."
So, from the above, I cite a reason and an example of why we must keep informing those who potentially will support McCain (and who perhaps in times of debate have appeared jostled and attempt to flee...it gives hope that they know the error of their ways). May Obama and Biden win in November.
It is imperative that a steady and repeated message against current republican posturing, particularly McCain's almost transparent staging and situational condescension toward supposed "swing" voters (in which he assumes they are dumb enough to think that the mere physical presence of a woman on his ticket is the same as being progressive and in touch with the needs of this country) be delivered unto those we know are intending to vote for McCain but who are, by golly, good honest people, most likely more in tune with the policies of Obama/Biden, but who are for one reason or another immune to either campaigns core message and ideology, and thus vote tradition or fear. In the words of David Duncan wrote in reference to second term Bush supporters (and thus can be applied to potential first term McCain voters [see 90% vote with Bush record]) while he spoke about the atrocities brought upon our land via the Bush administration
"Every time I read my list of the fruits by which we know this administration [Bush], a bunch of Bush people simply stand up and walk out in a fury. As they see it, my list of the specifics of their president's trashing of Creation is a gratuitous trashing of their president. This reaction is remarkable-and crucial, I feel, in our current attempts to be effective writers. The refusal to hear Bush's actual record implies a certain love of land, there's hope buried here--but also a disconnect. Rather than support a president who would stop unleashing the horrors they're infuriated to hear listed, Bush [and McCain] backers simply want us to stop upsetting them with the dread deeds of their man.
"Such people have become closed systems. The biological devastations caused by their own vote is not something they want to know about. A question for us as writers is: should we go on telling them? I don't claim to own the high ground on this quandary, but I do go on telling....This makes it my responsibility, in the attempt to love a neighbor named Bush and his followers, to point out horrific consequences of his administration's actions...
"To their hearts' credit but their imaginations' disgrace, many who are unaware of these devastations insist upon remaining unaware. This, I believe, is the kind of mental impasse C.G. Jung was referring to when he said that national psychosis is more powerful than our power to change it."
So, from the above, I cite a reason and an example of why we must keep informing those who potentially will support McCain (and who perhaps in times of debate have appeared jostled and attempt to flee...it gives hope that they know the error of their ways). May Obama and Biden win in November.