Reply #23: Article #1 = bullshit . . . Article #2 = bullshit x 10 . . . [View All]

[OneBlueSky]

when will we ever learn, indeed . . . when will we ever learn that articles like these are part of the right-wing propaganda campaign that has been growing and refining itself over the past 30 years . . . just because these people say that "liberals hate middle America" and ridicule their values doesn't make it so! . . . that's just propaganda, and they hope that if they say it often enough, people will start to believe it . . . but I don't know any liberals or progressives who hate middle America OR who ridicule their values . . . hell, there's a lot of us who ARE middle America! . . .

now, I do know some liberals who hate the reactionary, far-right religious fundamentalists and who think their values are whacked . . . don't protect the environment because it will delay the apocalypse? . . . sorry, but that's fundamentalist clap-trap . . . and not a middle American value by any means . . .

what writers like this are trying to do with these kinds of missives is equate criticism of Christian fundamentalism with criticism of middle America . . . as if the two were one in the same . . . they're not . . . but if they keep saying it enough and are unchallenged, the country may come to believe that they are . . . that's one of the many things we have to guard against during BushCo II . . .