How mindless does a person have to be to look up to someone who flaunts

his patriotism with ribbons and flags;and how much more mindless can one get than wearing one's religion on one's sleeve?

After the endless sufferings visited on human beings over the ages by religious fanatics and the near term horrors inflicted on human beings on a colossal scale by the Nazis, one would think people would be leery of both these pernicious evils.Most of all, in a society that admires itself as the most advanced nation on earth.

looks to have gotten its start with 911. After that, everyone wanted to show support for their country at a time of crisis. Unfortunately, Bush* seized on that patriotism and has continued to twist it to his favor. In the beginning, I also wore the flag and had one on my car. Now I have the upside down flag of distress on my car--and I just got a very nice t-shirt sporting the same image from Najami's site. The time is now long past for flag waving and pride in this country.

much of american society is made up of knuckle dragging morons, many others are merely brainless twits. :(

since they stepped off the mayflower and put a bounty on native american scalps.

it's the schizophrenia of how history is taught/experienced in this country that results in how weird our present circumstances are.

it got us to such strange places as freeing slaves and enacting apharteid laws or corporations are the same as individuals, etc.

now we bring war to the world with the same bloody mindedness and call it holy.

Since change, whether it be a rock eroding over thousands of years, or the bending of pitch between one note to another, tends to be so slight that it cannot be measured in proper degrees, man tends to label and categorize experiences in order to more easily associate one to another.

I believe that certain minds choose the "easy way out": they choose to perceive things within a minimal set of degrees. "If I'm not always wrong, I'm always right" or "If you're not with us, you're against us".

Invariably, those with lesser capacity for reason tend to side with others who they find agreeable, for any number of random, personally determined reasons based in one's life experience.

These people are the ones who are deeply affected by Bush's cowboy PR stunts, his appeals to patriotism, his sanctimonious smirk, his "everyman" mispronunciations, his religious rhetoric, and his narrow-minded firmness on every issue.

This man has manipulated literally millions of Americans into believing that he is a true patriot with the good of the common man in mind. His flaws only serve to endear him to his fawning audience of supporters, and it will take nothing short of a mass de-programming to save America from the symbolic, cultist mentality it has sunken into.

individuals, capable of thinking and acting on the evidence one sees.If anything, we are a nation of cheerleaders, a job that Bush has supposedly excelled at.