JustAsking said:
Thats right, if they had just kept quiet about it no one would have known anything about our foreign policy and everyone around the world would still like us. Damn those Chicks!
Haha, unlike US, the rest of the world isn't being fed constant propaganda on how great we are- they know we suck already. The only people being fooled by our false patriotism are the backwoods inbred bastards that STILL support this administration despite the overwhelming evidence of its misdeeds, warcrimes, erosion of civil rights and perversion of religion. The Dixie Chicks be damned, they were hardly saying anything "on foreign soil" that the rest of the world can't clearly see for themselves. They made a statement based on the fact the THEY did not want to be associated with that slime, I don't either. Kudos to them for having the balls to use their fame to make a statement that not all Americans DO agree with our horrible foreign policies.
Hatched, did you ever hear the term "black listing". Look it up under McCarthyism sometime when you get a chance. It has to do with the government manipulating the public into a nationalistic frenzy about hateful enemies in our midst, implying that you are either "with us or agin us" in the war against them, and then letting the public ruin people's careers out of nationalistic outrage. Yes people voted with their $$ in the early 50s and ruined the careers of quite a few people. It was one of the most hateful shame filled episodes in our recent history.
Well, at least until the historians write about the bush years, part deux.
The part that most often frightens me about the "for or agin" arguments is that so many times, they disregard the possibility that more than two options exist, which is absurd. The actual problem is that they don't know a) what the Bible says, how or when it was written and assimilated, how Christianity progressed through the years and under whose direction, b) what the Constitution says, why inalienable rights are worth fighting for, even though our forefathers would be aghast that we are even having this crisis- no doubt they felt they had made themselves clear on this point c) what the issues are about, who is being affected and why, and (my personal favorite) d) since this is generally the "less-thinking" portion of the population, they are frequently incapable of seeing anything beyond the surface presentation, so they just won't catch anything that requires one to store knowledge to compare it to new information, thus making what is known as an informed decision. Example- bush claiming to be a Christian. Other than proclaiming "Lord, lord" on tv, on what would one base such an assessment? I can claim to be an architect, but that hardly makes it so.
This is clearly just a new and improved stab at McCarthyism, but to your "average" dashboard dog, saying something like that makes you a conspiracy theorist.
There is nothing uglier than blind nationalism at the expense of the world except blind religious zealotry at the expense of the world.
Good work, quotable and short. If you don't run for a political office, perhaps you'd consider Messiah?