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• Wednesday, November 7, 2007 09:19 AM

  Polarization & rednecks

  gregrocker wrote:

  Welcome to Nation of Rednecks.

  Indeed, and Joshua Zeitz in his illuminating piece ('Dixie's Victory') in American Heritage) showed clearly how the US of A came to be the land of confederate flags, NASCAR and bible belt religiosity long before Dubya got in and crystallized it into a bad ongoing national joke.

  Any fucking moron or imbecile can write about how we need to come together and sing 'Kumbiyah' - but the facts of history since 2001 disclose we are dealing with aggressive, venomous vermin who are intent on destroying this country. In this zeitgeist, being palsy and bi-partisan doesn't get it done.

  Rovian tactics and politicizing every federal decision mean, rather, one must endorse and embrace (just as vehemently) all the OPPOSITE memes. This is the basis of memetic warfare. (In the same vein, as a recent WaPo article noted, anti-religious mindsets are now growing as a counterpoise to all the religious zealtotry of the past 15 yrs.)

  To insist liberals sit down with conservatives of the Bush ilk is to demand a surrender pact. To leave all our principles and social investment there for the trashing. This is not on.

  Another thing, when weasly politicos on the "left" give in so often to aid and abet the verminous Right, it is expected that online rage (of the base) will increase in compensatory fashion for the spineless representation on offer.

  This author obviously doesn't grasp the dynamic. He'd do well to read 'The Lucifer Principle' on how specific memes engender their opposite and why this is necessary to preserve a social, cultural and political equilibrium.

  As I have said before, we (on the left) will never EVER accept any of their presidents, and they will never accept ours. The only recourse is to split the country into "Red" and "Blue" states (or analogous regions based on politics) like India and Pakistan did in 1948.

  It is abundantly clear we cannot live together, nor should we even try.

  —droogoy Read droogoy's other letters
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