> I haven't been in the US for a couple of years, but I
> would like to see that the sheer level of hatred
> expressed publically in that country is unbelievable.
> I have never experienced anything remotely like it in
> Russia, Germany or France (the three other countries I
> have experience with. It's psychotic.
Not only that, but political discourse is dying. How many of you can have a political conversation with a right wing supporter of Bush?
In my own family, most of us have strong political views, but we no longer discuss politics. My father's politics are colored by a decade of listening to Rush Limbuagh. My little sister is a Young Republican and thinks that Ronald Reagan was a great man. The oldest sister is a liberal Republican who thinks she's hip, but who holds some incredibly racist ideas (those Iraqis are savages). My mom is a xtian fundamentalist Lutheran. The only family member I can talk to is the middle sister who supported Perot, who considers herself an independent, and who goes off on Bush in tirades that outdo anything I could say about the old war criminal.
I think that many of the supporters of Bush are aware that he lied America into invading Iraq, but they don't want their bubble of security pierced. Their method of dealing with a world which hates Bush, along with over half of Americans, is to listen to right wing media and yell at everybody who they think is a liberal (including us non-liberal anarchists).
Chuck