"...There can be no doubt that the Bush victory was propelled by something very much like a mass social movement, with its own vocabulary and leadership structures. This is Bush's army, says Dr. [Michael] Dawson [Harvard political scientist]. `The Bush administration has achieved absolute mastery of white Protestants, particularly those with less education. This is damning for the country and its future.' It is actually a familiar enemy, drawn from the same `stock' that have cut off their economic noses to spite Black faces since the end of the Civil War. They were once the Dixiecrat base, who then became the southern Republican base, and are now tied together with similar white elements throughout the country by interlocking networks of churches and the Republican Party. The corporate media feign surprise and fascination at the emergence of this huge group of whites - a posture that strikes many Blacks as disingenuous, since those of us with southern roots know that crowd all too well. ...These whites - or rather their leaders - are masters of euphemism. They swamped the polls...on Tuesday with the words `moral values' on their lips - white evangelical code for the `good people' versus the `bad' people. The ancient but still fiercely operative Black-white paradigm has been overlaid with `Arabs', `clash of civilizations', and homosexuals, but it's still the same onion."
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Snit left off the best part.
Lots of nice words come down to the same thing. Pod people, escaped from Area 51, multiply in gas station tolites like bacteria and take over the world.
Carrol asked, How are we to control for all these variables?
As Kurtz said, Exterminate the Brutes.
CG