Dear George,

What was all that about building alliances? The AP says
Europe Allies Extend Olive Branch to Bush.

The headline forgot the rest of the world, but they're in there too.

UNRELATED: But irksome, and needing to be posted somewhere. Being in a left-leaning area (the academy only agitates things) I've overheard a few disturbing things today (I'm a great eavesdropper -- especially at eateries).

I've heard grumblings about the superiority of New York and Boston to the rest of the country, which I was surprised to learn is populated by 'moral, religious nutjobs.'

I've heard a number of people taking turns reassuring one another why things went 'wrong.' This, especially on campus, is usually done with a very professorial tone. I'm imparting wisdom here, child. If only the ignorant masses could see it through my eyes. If only they'd read Foucault.

I've heard people suggesting that exit polls indicating a Bush victory kept Democrats away, but this is a shameless and indefensible statement when the election, by all accounts, generated the greatest voter turnout in decades.

I've had enough of dismissal, enough of denial, enough of elitest disdain and the rhetoric of self-preservation.

I talked to a friend on the phone tonight and his roommate couldn't believe I voted for Bush. He said only confederate states did that. He was teasing, but it says something about leftist ideology.

The opposition is easily packaged: stupid, racist, Christians.

And as an intelligent atheist who shudders at nationalism (let alone racism) I'm fed up. Enough with labels, with institutionalized bigotry on cultural and religious lines, with rolls of the eyes and sarcasm substituting for reasoned debate. It's enough to attack the opposition these days for being 'southern', 'rural', or 'religious' and take pride in one's own imagined superiority.

But open your eyes. I'm the opposition, and I'm none of those things.

Nor do I find any one of them a reproach.

posted by Dennis on 11.03.04 at 09:00 PM





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Take a look at the left. One of its major canards, socialism, has been so thouroughly discredited by experience that only a bigot could still adhere to it. Why wouldn't you expect someone who is a bigot about one thing to be a bigot about more?

Phelps   ·  November 4, 2004 02:17 PM


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