Howard Dean in 2003:
"White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back ought to be voting with us, and not [Republicans], because their kids don't have health insurance either, and their kids need better schools too."
and
"I still want to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks," the former Vermont governor said in an interview published Saturday in the Des Moines Register. "We can't beat George Bush unless we appeal to a broad cross-section of Democrats."
All the lefty elites in the DNC and in the media TRASHED Howie for that. They should've listened. Instead, they labelled him: He's un-PC, he's divisive, he's using stereotypes. Like the French about Iraq, Dean was right, and no one wants to admit it.
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The guys in their pickups are one thing, but a horde of sheeple emerging from their churches like zombies to vote over abortion and gay marriage (or unions) is another. Gives me the willies. A vote is a vote, but the huge evangelical turnout gives me a total sense of contempt for Bush's large popular vote margin. (The impossibility of proving that electronic fraud did NOT happen gives me even more contempt.) Those sheeple seem to have no sense - their "votes" are the result of brainwashing, cultural coercion, and simpleminded herd instinct. I'm tempted to regard them as utterly invalid. It would pain me to have to risk my life to defend them in war, if the US were attacked.
One of the better things about this election is the sense of clarity it gave. I no longer have any obligation to call myself "American". I'm a NORTHEASTERNER!
I smell an unabashed CULTURAL ELITIST! I bet you drink wine and go to museums and listen to classical music.
Read H.L. Mencken--the same block of voters has always been around. How you either A)get them to stay home or B) get enough of them to vote with you is key to the future of the progressive movement in the US.
Wine and Sibelius as I write!
But no - though I don't like much current Nashville country, it's valid (and Hank W., Cash, and the old folkies and blues artists are unbelievable). I come from southern country people and like their impatience with urban nonsense (they're sceptical about me so we're even).
What I'm criticising is the kind of evangelical fervor which is blind and blinding. If the election were decided by a tidal wave of zombie sheeple directed by fundamentalist churches, I have a real problem with respecting those votes. I guess I would be all for ignoring the south instead of seeking appeasement with the religious right. Which is what Kerry decided to try - he wrote the south off and tried to win the west, Ohio, and Florida (which is "South" but has retirees from all over). Which brings up the situation currently brewing. Florida (in particular) and Ohio show evidence of massive electronic vote fraud. If (who knows) Kerry mounted a legal challenge in those states and was successful, he might win the Presidency AND YET STILL LOSE THE POPULAR VOTE BY A COUPLE OF MILLION, partly because of all those zombie sheeple.
That would be fine with me - whereas if there hadn't been such a large Evangelical surge I would be bothered by the discrepancy......
Ah, Sibelius. I haven't listened to him in a while--might be time to break out #7. With a fine Cab, or perhaps a Shiraz...
I, too, come from The Salt of the Earth, and get treated with contempt for my lack of NASCAR and deer-hunting knowledge by relatives. The skepticism/suspicion indeed cuts both ways.
I think a lot of these voters are ripe for the picking WITHOUT pandering to Jeezus. They have to be de-programmed after years of AM radio, however.
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