[-empyre-] Will Rational Exuberance Prevail?

[Randall Packer <rpacker@zakros.com>]

You might be wondering, how could George Bush be tied or possibly 
even leading in the polls as the nation teeters in this 
post-apocalyptic era? How could there be so many Bush supporters when 
every day the front page of the newspaper reads like a doomsday 
episode from Twilight Zone? The reason: 42% of eligible voters are 
Middle America bible-toting right-wing Christian fundamentalists on a 
Mission from God, and nothing will shake them, not even reality.

On the other hand, go into any bookstore, and displays are filled 
with tell-all books on Bush atrocities written by politicians, former 
administration officials, ex-generals, religious leaders, scholars, 
academics, moms who lost their sons in Iraq, and other members of the 
"reality community." These pleas for truth and reason are passionate, 
informed, angry, and devoid of faith-based righteousness.

Will rational exuberance prevail in the upcoming election? Or, will 
Bush be handed another four years from a nation hypnotized by 
propaganda, disinformation, and passages from Revelations. The very 
citizens in the Heartland who are being ravaged by the 
administration's policies are screaming for re-election. Have they 
gone mad?

Bush has artfully deceived the nation by invoking the Orwellian 
phrase, "Ignorance is Strength." Sadly, we can now proclaim, in this 
campaign where nuance and multiplicity of perspective is ridiculed, 
"Reason is Weakness."