“PD, my sense is that we’ll muster the will to fight.”
Sure, you’ve got the will to fight. But you don’t have a reason to fight. And that’s the problem. Your government has tricked you into wanting to fight their fight rather than yours. The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) is whose fight we’re fighting.
“All the will and fortitude seems to be dying with my Grandfather’s generation. We have become a nation of lazy quitters and complainers who expect instant gratification and stunning success.”
This is typical of the right wing’s other main tactic. When logic and reason fail (which they obviously have in this case), resort to emotional rhetoric and lobbing made-up insults at the other side.
If anything, our country is doomed to become fascist. When people stop questioning their government, that’s the first step toward fascism. If ever a government deserved to be questioned, it’s ours right now. I always wondered what kind of idiots cheered mussolini and stalin in the streets. Now I know. They’re not idiots. PD and jg aren’t stupid. That’s pretty obvious. They’ve merely fallen for emotional rhetoric and placed too much faith in their leaders. And it seems to me that maybe that’s what happened to all those people who followed stalin and mussolini.
I understand that it’s human nature to want to feel good about yourself. And that’s Karl Rove’s genius. He’s made people stick with his side because it makes them feel good about themselves to say,”we’re strong and you’re weaklings. We’re right and you’re “liberals.” We’re willing to stay and fight and be manly and you want to cut and run, you little girls. We’re righteous and moral and you’re degenerate and heathen. We’re just better than you are!” The problem is that none of it is true. Just because you want to engage in war doesn’t make you strong. If you are willing to fight to defend your country, that does make you strong. But if you are willing to fight simply because gwbush says you should, that makes you weak. And basing your morals on a fantasy being doesn’t make you righteous. Having morals and ethics based on what’s good for the human condition doesn’t make you degenerate. It’s what you do and not where you get your guidance that makes you good or bad. And people who get their guidance from god are, in my experience, no more likely to be “good” than those who don’t. In fact, in many cases, it gives them license to do bad things.
Actually, if there’s one man to blame in this whole fiasco, it’s Karl Rove. A more brilliant person at what he does I cannot think of. He’s managed to get people to elect a complete idiot to run their country, and to support the conservatives long after they’ve displayed their incompetence. It really is absolutely amazing. But he knew, while the democrats didn’t, that what people respond to is emotional rhetoric and propaganda. Not logic and reason. Even in the information age, people don’t want too much information. They just want to feel good. Unfortunately, while Rove knows how to make people feel good about themselves and to get his people elected, he doesn’t know how to run a country, and neither does the fool that he got elected.
