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Thursday, Nov 04, 2004
Seen somewhere on DKos
"The Cracker Belt hates us because of our freedom."
Selective Homophobia
The fag haters that elected Bush actually have a bit of, how you say, nuance to their homophobia. Ashcroft can joke about the Queer Eye Guys. Republicans can be friendly with their gay waiters. But there's a line that can't be crossed.
It's similar to how sotherners felt about "Coloreds" or "Negroes" in the fifties. Yeah, they are welcomed as entertainers or servants, but you wouldn't want one of "their kind", you know, in the PTA, for God's sake.
Pop Psychology II
......Or it could be the revenge of the jocks
In high school, the jocks totally rule. There may be inklings of the rise of the brainiacs, but the jocks are clearly at the pinnacle of the social pyramid. But then real life happens. The geeks, the wonks, the dweebs hit their stride. They run the banks. They dominate the arts and entertainment. They run hi-tech, biotech, nanotech. They live in their coastal cities and eat their goddamned sushi while watching TiVo. Fuckers!
The revenge of the jock is the rejection of intellect, and this time without an asterisk. But they couldn't find a jock, so they settled for a high school cheerleader, a smirking boy who is popular despite being ignorant and unwise.
But like the best of all possible marks, the Bush lovers don't even realized that they have been conned. He'll mortgage their grandmothers and their sons for his vainglorious lies, and blame it on "his opponent", "the enemy", "the French".
Atavism is the New Black
There's the legitimate and measured response to a former agent gone wrong (i.e. bin Laden). And then there's something entirely different, the perpetual GWOT (global war on terror). The GWOT is an elaborate series of lies intended to incite the base emotions of fear and hate that reside in the reptilian brain. Bypassing the nuance of the pre-frontal lobe, the Bushista's tap into the inner lizards of the American populace.
The homophobia which may have swung the balance in the swing states is another example of atavism. The primitive homophobic emotion that afflicts so many so-called Christians isn't of Paleozioc origin, but it is a throw back to a primitive time. I've never met a homophobic quadraped, and our cousins the Bonobo aren't homophobic. So I'd have to peg this repugnant loathing to the Pleistocene Epoch.
While some may decry the notion of turning back the clock to a pre-scientific era of "magical" thinking, I find that criticism wide of the mark. The Bushistas want to turn the clock back 300 million years. They want the populace to act like so many Komodo Dragons in the presence of red meat, and seem to have mastered the technique for stimilating the amygdalas of millions of Americans. I, for one, refuse to quietly accept an era of primitive, violent emotion.
Update:
For the sake of being fair and balanced, let me offer an alternate view, from my muse, the Reverend Doctor Jerry Falwell ...
Jerry Falwll on CNN October 24, 2004
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