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Originally Posted by roachboy
mr. jazz: what exactly is the national psyche?
just wondering.
i really havent any idea.
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Exactly? I don't know if I can answer it that way, but I can give you my opinion. In my above post, I meant middle America's pride in the armed forces, their inability to be critical of servicemen and -women and the willingness to enforce patriotism. Basically the vast majority of Americans who see "Born in the USA" as an anthem instead of the protest song that Springsteen meant. Those folks aren't stupid although they allow themselves to be blinded by the glare of the flag sometimes. When Bush declared "victory", that was his target audience. Obviously, they've come to realize that the declaration was something substantially different than the reality of the situation, and without any sort of way to extricate ourselves (which is what John Q. Public now seems to want) with a measure of dignity, I can only see even more voter apathy ahead, which is the worst way to make any changes to the system beyond the calls for violent revolution that go echoing through TFP on a regular basis. As a student of revolutions (1905, 1917-24 in Russia), I'm honestly afraid for me and my family should something like that happen here.