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I wonder if small town America is aware that Russia isn't Iraq. It has a huge military and nearly 30,000 nuclear weapons, many of whom still targeted at US cities. How exactly would a conventional or nuclear confrontation with Russia improve the lives of rural, small town Americans and who will the burden of such a catastrophe fall on?
-- pantanal
As someone who has lived & worked in Russia, it goes without saying that you are correct, but if the 'values" recorded in this ethnographic reporting are reflective of a a significant, (i.e. election-tipping), minority of American voters, your analysis is far too complicated to have any meaning for them, until the shock-wave hits. And, frankly, where these folks live, they'll have to wait for the fallout.
This is a very depressing view of an electorate that is too stupid to survive. My problem is that, if we do not vote in extraordinary numbers, they will drag us down with them.
That still makes it OUR MOVE.
Joey Tranchina
Joey Tranchina
