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...to know that you live in the same country with folks that support the policies of George W Bush and Dick Cheney. As the latest polls suggest, 77% of Republicans think we need experience more than change in the next election. How else are we supposed to read that except that 77% of the Republicans must be comfortable with the status quo and the policies of George W Bush? Can this be for real?
Can they really support the torture, the lies, the spying, the incompetence, the profligacy, the arrogance, the disrespect for our Constitution? Do they truly believe that more taxcuts are in order? Do they truly believe that our economy is doing great? Just how important is $3 trillion dollars more in debt? Do they truly believe it does not matter?
It is frightening and disturbing to think about how far we have sunk as a nation? It is all so easy to blame everything on 9/11. How can any American rest comfortably with such ill-informed citizens in our midst? Are we supposed to believe they are ignorant of what is going on? Are we supposed to work with these types of criminals in a bi-partisan way? It is all so mind-boggling and confusing.
How can we call 77% of Republicans "criminals"? Isn't it that they simply have different political beliefs than we? It cannot be true that every other person I pass on the street may be so alien to what I have been taught all my life? They do not really believe in torture. They do not really believe that the President is above the law. They do not really believe that Americans should be spied upon with reason or warrant. They do not really believe our Constitution is just a piece of paper and our security trumps all those petty liberal rationalizations. Or do they...?
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