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Look, I'm not speaking as someone without blood on my hands. I hate the authoritarian bent of this administration and I've been crudely outspoken about it.
But I think we do more harm than good by demonizing, labeling and ascribing all sorts of mental ills to people we disagree with.
Isn't some portion of this labeling a process of dehumanizing conservatives that we must undertake to justify hatred and to establish our superiority?
I mean, I can prove that George Bush is not evil. Think about it. If he had planted just one truckload of anthrax making equipment, one small sack of fissile material in Iraq, approval for the Iraq war would still be over 50%. The outcomes of his policies may be evil. He may be flawed, personally. He is more likely just wrong.
Damn you all for making me sound like a moderate.
