The New York Review of Books: How Bush Really Won: This description makes me think of a Nazi rally....
On a beautiful October evening three days before the election, Orlando's Tinker Field had become an enormous bowl filled with 17,000 screaming, chanting Bush partisans floating in a sea of red, white, and blue. On the stadium wall hung a great fifty-foot high sign proclaiming that George W. Bush was 'MOVING AMERICA FORWARD!' Inside, flanking the stage in letters that dwarfed it, and echoed by smaller signs bobbing up and down everywhere in the crowd, was the terse slogan 'AMERICA: SAFER STRONGER BETTER!' And then, precisely placed around the stadium in enormous letters, were the words on which the campaign was built: 'STRENGTH! LEADERSHIP! CHARACTER! INTEGRITY!' Disciplined, organized, relentless, the Bush campaign would never be accused of subtlety.
That people bought this load of horsesh*t just goes to prove how stupid they are. This election was groupthink at it's worst... the Republicans scared all the sheep, so they disregarded the facts and bought the hype, because it's much easier than thinking for oneself. Americans don't like thinking. They'd rather be told what to think, so they have time for more important things like watching tv and getting fat. Why do you think there's so much advertising? Because is works. People will buy ANYTHING they've seen on the television. Just like they'll believe anything they're told by morons like Rush Limpbutt and Bill zzzzzzzzzzzz O'Reilly....
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