The best statement in Homecoming on Showtime. Brilliant.

I don't have the exact words, but this is very close. It was on Homecoming, Masters of Horror last night.

As they were watching TV, listening to someone speak who sounded just like Bush, wondering how he got so many to believe in him...this statement was made. It is how he makes THEM feel. It is blatant, and brilliant.

"the president makes stupid people feel like they are smart."

No, it is not a nice statement, but it was not a nice war, and it was a truly ugly movie that told the stark truth.



"Sargent: "I seen men get killed, sir, for a lie.
... women and children killed, for a lie.
I've seen my friends killed, for a lie.
I was killed, for a lie."

Candidate: "What is it you want, um, sargent?"

Sargent: "We want to vote. We will vote for anyone who will vote for the end of this evil war."

I'm amazed at some of the people who voted for bush, many of whom did so at risk of harming their lives and livelihood.

I have an uncle that way, retired military, college graduate, very overall kind nice man. They do a lot of charity work for the catholic church. He is not stupid in anyway, but he acts totally ignorant on this issue. He can NOT be reached.

But their minds are so closed when it comes to this administration. They hate the cuts they are making to the poor, because they see it first hand in the outreach. But they blame the Democrats for it somehow.

Oh, did I say they think Rush is the last word?
:shrug:

... and we saw a bagboy/stocker known to my better half. We chatted for a few minutes, and somehow the pleasant discussion turned to politics. Turns out he is a ringwinger, although he didn't have much nice to say about bush or his boss, cheney.

What bugged the crap outta me, though, was that this kid kept repeating bogus talking points over and over to make some sort of case. A couple of hours later, it started to make sense; he's just spouting crap he hears on limbaugh's show. He has no ability to think independently about issues, he just fell into regurgitating rw talking points to me. The guy was nice enough, but absolutely unwilling to listen to reason.

They don't dare look at themselves.

They are not unintelligent, but Bush appeals to them. Rush has them brainwashed.

ouch, offensive... but maybe true.

But that statement hit me in the gut. It is offensive, but then so is our leader. I am very offended about this war and all the dead and dying.

on the campaign trail last year, who absolutely flat-out said bush "talks so the poor folks can understand." I saw it with my own eyes and heard it with my own ears.

PLEASE - before you flame me - understand this is not meant as a pejorative or dismissal of those who are poor or undereducated. But those who don't use grammar correctly, who are poorly-spoken, who are barely articulate (perhaps they just weren't paying attention in class, or they were dyslexic or learning-disabled, and no one had the savvy or experience or funding to help them to learn despite their difficulty). He doesn't read. Perhaps they don't bother with reading that much, either. If they did, they'd be more well-informed and resistant to the crap that's spewed in the media and in speeches and campaign commercials and other assorted quick-hit pr strategies that appeal to the lowest common denominator. He DOES speak their language, because he, too, is ignorant, and while on paper he is purportedly extremely well-educated, he snoozed or spit tobacco or picked his nose or cut class to drink and snort through his years at Harvard and Yale, squandering a world-class education for which some other FAR more deserving kid would have fallen on his/her knees in gratitude. He appeals to people's baser instincts, KNOWINGLY. And they'd be immune to those appeals if they were only better educated. But when you spend most of your time angry and resentful because your life isn't working out the way you see others on TV doing so well, and you resent others for their "high-fallutin'" big words and edjy-cay-shun, and you're listening to a radio loudmouth who FLAT-OUT TELLS YOU that you don't even have to think - HE will do the thinking for you, well - then you get mass quantities of voters who will allow themselves to be taken in by a smooth-talkin' craw-fishin' Satan-spawn.

Look, WE know better because - what do we do around here most of the time? We READ. We READ blogs, we READ articles both mainstream and more obscure or alternative, we READ other people's opinions and analysis and critiques, we READ. We READ. That READING, ALONE, exposes us to far more truth and more alternative points of view and more exposes by more alternative reporters and diggers and investigators and writers and truth-seekers than you get by what paltry pablum is offered on mainstream TV, radio, cable, and in print. If you don't get a love of reading installed in school, or at home at your mama's knee at an early age, you're far less likely to pursue it when you're older and you're not in school anymore and you don't necessarily HAVE TO read anything because you don't have some classroom assignment to complete. These people don't read. Therefore what they do get as input is limited. Therefore, their thinking and reasoning is also equally limited. It's a shame. It's a national tragedy. And it will turn us into a third-rate country.