really, really interesting

[winterbadger]

http://www.livejournal.com/users/wayfairer/456769.html

It's a bit long, but it's worth the read.

What it doesn't explain to me maybe the many, many pages of discussion do, but I have to do *some* work), is... OK, if that's the way people think and they see Bush as a Christian man fighting the forces of evil, then I can see why they would vote for him. But what I still don't get is *why* they would see Bush as a good Christian man. Surely not just because he says so. And if it were just based on his actiosn, that would be entirely circular: we support him because he's X, eveen if he does what might seem like bad things, but we think he's X because he does good things... Is it because of who endorses him? I'm still missing something.

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[redactrice.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for posting that link. I found the opening post in that journal a lucid and fascinating aid to understanding a mindset that I don't share but that is having a growing effect on U.S. society. I also found the range of comments fascinating. (If you haven't read it, you might appreciate the thread about Jewish perspectives on the first page of comments.) I avidly read three pages of comments before deciding that I, too, need to go back and earn my taxpayer-funding salary. But I plan to go back to that link after hours and read more comments.

Thanks for digging up something useful. After all, that's what badgers do best!