Letters to the Editor
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No news is bad news
Is this week in Ohio really news? Not if you read the local accounts. The Akron Beacon Journal's rendering of Bush's visit is overwhelmingly positive, with any critical response relegated deep into the story (here: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/14150473.htm). Americans keep on swallowing the same old lies. We seem to still believe in America as an exception, but the reality is that America and Americans are no more good, honest, kind than the rest of the world. Americans, like everyone else, go along to get along. How could the East Bloc go from communist to capitalist overnight? Because the vast majority of the population didn't really care who was in control, certainly not enough to try to do something about it. The USA, with its dubiously elected administration, is in the same boat. We will limp along with our pathetic leaders until people can no longer afford to drive their SUVS, make the payments on their houses, etc. Until then, we really couldn't care if Washington is run by lying warmongers.