You know, I wish I could hand my vote over to someone I thought would use it more wisely than I can. I mean, I try. I read article after article, I read the news in our local daily and then I go to the indie journals to get the facts. I spend at least an hour every single day trying to figure out what's going on in my country and the world. And either there aren't any facts or else I can't keep them in my fool head. I know why so many Americans voted for Bush--he's basic. You don't …
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Since there seems to be some aversion thus far to introducing the elephant in the room, allow me to do so. Bush didn't just happen, nor did Clinton nor Reagan, nor Nixon. We, the American people, let them happen and if they hadn't happened in the last century they surely would have in this one. It is not the politicians: they are human beings just like we are susceptible to the same weaknesses and vices that we are. More corrupt? Perhaps more corrupt than some of us, but not all. They are different because they have opportunity and means. The means …
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Joe, Thank you for this. It delineates in ways that I could not some universal truths about human nature. Do you, does anyone remember the famous experiment at Yale U. back in the late 50s, I think, wherein ordinary citizens were duped into "torturing" someone whom they though was a fellow experimental subject by being told they were helping them learn new material by shocking them? One aspect of the experiment that I thought was particularly instructive (and hopeful) was that when the real subject of the experiment was face-to-face with the "learner" it became much more difficult for the "scientists" …
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