••can ye pass the acid test?••

ye who enter here be afraid, but do what ye must -- to defeat your fear ye must defy it.

& defeat it ye must, for only then can we begin to realize liberty & justice for all.

time bomb tick tock? nervous tic talk? war on war?

or just a blog crying in the wilderness, trying to make sense of it all, terror-fried by hate radio and FOX, the number of whose name is 666??? (coincidence?)

Tuesday, June 13, 2006

venomous voice

well, it happened again.

when rep ellen tauscher (d-ca) appeared on washington journal, a caller said dems have "venom" in their voices. before she hung up she said her husband was in vietnam "...and look what kerry did to him!"

i guess she bought the swiftvet slander that kerry branded all viet vets as war criminals.

i don't know what she meant by "venom," but her own voice sounded tense with fear, resentment, and hate.

"...you can...fool some of the people all the time...."
—a lincoln
rep tauscher—who said she voted to authorize force in iraq because she trusted da prez's claims in 2002—now opposes the war, but she'll vote to fund it because she supports the troops.

maybe she doesn't know "support our troops" is a rhetorical sledgehammer to get votes to pay for war. maybe she doesn't know the troops were polled a few months ago and 72% say we should leave iraq. does supporting them mean ignoring their opinion?

gops have shown their extreme effectiveness at repeating sound bites to lodge them firmly in our memories. unfortunately, memory can't tell true from false. it just stores info and retrieves it, both of which are facilitated by repetition.

when two pieces of info are repeatedly juxtaposed, they become associated with each other in the memory. if one of them is harmless and the other is threatening, the threat gets associated with the harmless idea. that's the source of phobia.

gops have—perhaps inadvertently—induced mass phobia in a large segment of the american public. is that why they call themselves the "party of ideas"?

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