Hamlet:
Americans love being able to be righteously outraged. It brings an intoxicating sense of being right while others are wrong. It reinforces beliefs, gives a sense of power, and is almost addictive.
And it is a great motivator.
The Civil Rights movement used it very effectively to finally institute changes in segregated South. Dozens of preachers became mega-millionaires playing it up for the “Moral Majority”. And the Republican party has wielded it to increase fundraising for decades. Now it appears that the Democrats are finally catching up.
Sure using righteous indignation politically leads to divisiveness, unwillingness to compromise, and a breakdown of honest debate and discussion. Which, as we’ve seen over the last 3 elections, is having dire consequences for political discourse in our country.
Well Obama uses wrongeous dignation, so there. Frankly, I’m not unhappy that people are calling Bachman and her fellow travellers on their divisive bullshit.
Shayna
October 25, 2008, 11:43pm
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Nobody:
Look, Bachman was simply taking care of business. And if you think what she said was horrible, well then, you ain’t seen nothing yet.
Indeed. Tom Harkin’s opponent actually called him “the Tokyo Rose of Al Qaida”, and then some.
http://iowaindependent.com/7444/reed-calls-harkin-tokyo-rose-of-al-qaida
Republican Senate candidate Christopher Reed called incumbent Democrat Tom Harkin “Tokyo Rose” and “anti-American” because he provides “aid and comfort to the enemy.”
The statement came during a debate aired on Iowa Public Television and moderated by the Des Moines Register columnist David Yepsen.
“We’re taking advice from somebody who has an eight-year history of becoming the Tokyo Rose of Al-Qaida and Middle East terrorism,” said Reed, a political newcomer from Marion.
Yepsen asked what Reed meant by the term “Tokyo Rose.”
“Providing aid and comfort to the enemy,” Reed said, later adding Harkin has sided with the enemies of the United States.
. . .
This year’s crop of Republicans is particularly vile.
If it makes you feel any better, Nobody , I saw what you did there.
Maybe the next step for Bachman is going to be using quotes from The Turner Diaries to support her positions.
The only congressperson on my blocked email list! I have no idea why I was getting emails from her; I’ve never even been to her state.
Nobody
October 26, 2008, 3:07am
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kaylasdad99:
If it makes you feel any better, Nobody , I saw what you did there.
Maybe the next step for Bachman is going to be using quotes from The Turner Diaries to support her positions.
Maybe that’ll kick things into overdrive.
Hamlet:
Americans love being able to be righteously outraged. It brings an intoxicating sense of being right while others are wrong. It reinforces beliefs, gives a sense of power, and is almost addictive.
And it is a great motivator.
Oh, it’s not just Americans. Remember the huge to-do within the Muslim world following the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammaed? Happens in other countries as well, although no examples immediately come to mind.
C_K_Dexter_Haven:
Oh, it’s not just Americans. Remember the huge to-do within the Muslim world following the Danish cartoons depicting Mohammaed? Happens in other countries as well, although no examples immediately come to mind.
Try refering to a Scotsman as English.
Napier:
“Horrible”'s a pretty wide bucket. Chinese abuse of intellectual property law is horrible. The Holocaust was horrible. The first few minutes after waking from surgery is often kind of horrible.
Do you write for a living? 'Cause you should.
“These aren’t the lunatic remarks you’re looking for.”
