Marylynn Schmidt wrote: > What has me confused is just exactly who are these 29% and where are > they hiding?
I think most of them are members of my family . . . > You are right about no one admitting to voting for him in the last > election and no one I've ever come across thinks he's anything but > some bum. There's an awful lot of support for him among people I know. They think he's a "good" man. While the rest of us scratch our heads and wonder how REAL conservatives can hold his policies in anything other than contempt, the propaganda machine grinds on and the legacy of Josef Goebbels manufactures artificial consensus through flag waving and subliminal messages that pervade our media. Keith pointed this out in another thread. As an example, I was listening to NPR this morning and heard a feature involving an evangelical minister who has been caught up in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Chris Geeslin, the minister in question, believed one of his parishoners was a godly man because he was "in the Bible" and "prayed every day". This associate of Jack Abramoff set up a foundation that was intended to promote family values and "return America to God as the Founders intended", but instead, funneled foreign money to Tom Delay. (Big surprise!) http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5424662 Return America to God as the Founders intended? What??? I've a personal copy of the Constitution and NOWHERE in that document does it say anything about America being aligned with God. But if we hear that lie enough, we begin to believe it. The deception is subtle and subliminal, but pervasive. I've read somewhere else that "a man cannot serve two masters". People like Chris Geeslin are profoundly mislead when they begin believing that the US can function as an agent of God, but it's among people like him that the support for Mr. Bush persists. (I attend church with a LOT of people whose attitudes are remarkably similar.) Meanwhile, GM is offering a program for a 20 cent per liter discount on gasoline for all Canadian customers who buy a new GM truck or car. (The truck is prominently featured in the ad.) We're buying a hybrid electric Camry to replace the thrice-damned GM product that dishonors our driveway. The spin, counterspin and programming that goes on in our media really sets us up for corporate control. We get into debt through manufactured dissatisfaction and live a lifestyle determined by utter dependency on automobiles, and all the while, our president's corporate friends are heaping on the profits. People complain to me, but lately I've been telling them to shut up. I've been warning everyone around me for YEARS that we were heading down the path toward BIG trouble. Now it's here and I'm in no mood to listen to their bickering. What REALLY irritates me right now, is that many of those who are lamenting the loudest are the same group that put Mr. Bush and his cabal in power. If you really want to know who those 29% are, listen to the ones complaining about high gas prices and blaming their problems on the Arabs. I'd lay odds that among that group you will find the president's most ardent supporters. robert luis rabello "The Edge of Justice" Adventure for Your Mind http://www.newadventure.ca Ranger Supercharger Project Page http://www.members.shaw.ca/rabello/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/