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Originally Posted by Mentar
What the hell is wrong with America?
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People think Orwell was worried about communism but his warnings apply equally well to fascism and crony capitalism.
An anti-intellectual, anti-other, wrapped-in a-flag-waving-a-holy-book manipulation of the under-educated, under-informed, misinformed electorate. A regularly revisioned history. Eternal war. No option for the youth except the military. A two-tiered society with an extreme gulf in options and accessibility to resources.
That's what half the country seems to want. When you ask them to detail why you don't get rational or reasoned answers. You get answers that don't hold up under cross-examination because they're self-imposed smoke-and-mirrors.
Even if Obama wins in November, this faction will assume they just fronted the wrong candidate or didn't suppress enough votes, not that the fundamental underpinning of their murky ideas are flawed.