Red vs Blue
Pundits can talk about uniters and dividers until they are, well, red, blue, or purple in their faces - I just crossed the United States by car, and if you're that close to the ground, it's obvious that the facts remain: this is a very divided country. Yes, statistics can be finely ground until it is no longer so easily discerned what's blue and and what's red - but what is going to be achieved with such weaponized relativism? It is decidedly NOT a purple country. Those triumphantly red states that look so great on the TV screen maps? They are yawningly empty... go to this site to see the true balance of red and blue. Or if you can't stand it any more, go to this excellent site : two full seasons of the (deliciously political) machinima sit-com, Red vs Blue!
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I want to hear more about the drive and the Appalachians and the good God-fearing people who put a man willing to sell them and their chidren down the river for Halliburton's bottom line and his direct connection to Jesus. I need to see them.
tell us more -- what are they drinking out there? Maxwell House?
Ummmm... Maxwell House? Although a starbuck's latte is the perfect drink for a Kerry supporter, I wouldn't go so far as to say that their political sympathies are transparently influenced by the price of their coffee. The disdain, and I would go so far as to say disgust, with which people from the blue regions of the country view middle america is a testament to their own brand of political and social blindness.
There was alot wrong with that 'election.' People voting a straight Democratic ticket had their votes counted as libertarian (and people keep blaming Nader?), in certain districts in Ohio 247% of their registered voters turned out at the polls....ten hour lines.... We should be up in arms, we should be demanding recounts and screaming, not rolling our eyes at the idiocy of the majority of the country- and because they drink Maxwell House? Do you think this is somehow more acceptable than the anti- intellectualism you assume to be universal to certain clearly defined regions?
Um, I think Maxwell House was a low blow. It makes the differences about consumerist sophistication, and so we accept the market populist logic of the right-wingers.
There is a lot of fury and contempt out there and around here right now -- no denying it.
You might be outraged by the outrage -- but I say, how do we get to that next place of detached, but ruthless analysis without going through this valley of tears (of rage)?
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