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Originally Posted by irateplatypus
i think you're right halx, but then i don't think we totally disagree... why would people have a sense of doom? i hear rhetoric about the "politics of fear", but it seems if people feel doomed as you say... Obama seems to be the beneficiary.
if we made it through the carter administration, i think we can weather any storm.  my point is that there is nothing the president alone can do to make me feel my doom. i'm concerned that so many people are personally invested enough to feel doomed. as to freedom, there's nothing Bush has done that is without the approval (tacit or expressed) of the democratic congress. if that's the issue, i don't think they should expect change.
will, it's plain from my OP that the disgust is rooted in the emotional response to the rhetoric, not that i'm disgusted by "change". |
While I don't imagine I share you're exact political bent, your notion about "the politics of fear" has struck me as well. I believe it was around a week ago that I was reading a post in this forum from an Obama supporter that used the phrase "our only hope". That is a red flag to me and really got me to thinking about the mindset of those who seriously believe it. I'm sure, or at least hope, that the member who posted that statement didn't honestly believe so strong a statement, but there are many, especially first time voters, who do. I really don't know which is more frightening to me; the prospect of a large segment of fervent ideologues coming to dominate both parties or what happens to my party, and the future, if those same ideologues become disillusioned, possibly permanently so, were their candidate to not win. That is the danger that Bush's politics of fear (of terrorism) has put his party and this nation in, I can't see another politics of fear (of the political process) ending much better. Differently, because it is focused inward at how we run our own nation, but no better for the spirit of our nation.