Stupid White Men Won

[Ivo Skoric]

Moore's STUPID WHITE MEN re-elected Bush. I love analysing exit-polls 
and looking at the maps.
a) non-whites, women that are not housewifes, religious people that 
are not 'protestants' - they all predominantly voted for Kerry; which 
leaves us with the majority of STUPID WHITE MEN that did vote for 
Bush.
b) very educated (postgraduate degrees) and very little educated (no 
HS, or just HS) voted for Kerry, while all those who got some 
education, but obviously not enough to teach them how to think, they 
all voted for Bush.
c) the most predictable differentiating factor for Bush vote is 
income: the higher the income, the more likely that person would vote 
for Bush, with $50,000/year being the breaking point: rich prefer 
dictatorship over democracy, that's just a fact easily discerned from 
Latin American societies.
d) voting maps show wildly divided country, the entire East Coast 
North of Mason-Dixon line voted Democrat (and most of the rust-belt 
States), and the three West Coast states voted Democrat (the closer 
to coast, the more Democrat they are) - essentially, the economic 
engine of the country voted for Kerry - and the entire vast rest of 
the US voted for Bush. 
This eerily ressembles the situation in former Yugoslavia in the 1980-
s, when the more developed areas where in favor of political 
democratization, while 'the heartland' was for preserving the old 
system at all costs, including the bloody war that ensued a couple of 
years later.
e) wherever there is a city, a large urban area, there are 
minorities, and there is Kerry's victory - whichever state map you 
open you can pin-point where is the largest urban area there, because 
it is painted blue. and wherever there is a suburbian sprawl, guraded 
by the narrow-minded mentality of a small town, poisoned by the Fox 
News, without the advantage of buccolic imagery, poisoned by the air 
pollution from all the cars, there is a vote for Bush, and more of 
the same: get those criminal minority youth from inner cities to 
fight wars abroad so we can perpetually consume more for less.

ivo

On 3 Nov 2004 at 3:58, CERJ at igc.org wrote:

Dear CERJers,

It is so very difficult for me to stomach the apparent results of the
US elections this time around.  I have this nasty, sinking feeling
deep in my stomach, and it just won't go away.

The worst of it is, as Mohamed has implied with his comment about
Fallujah, is that there are uncounted thousands more people around 
the
world who will now die violent deaths because of the results of this
latest American political travesty.  I can feel sick about this all I
want -- and I will -- but the bottom line for so very many others is
so awfully much deeper.

My friends, my beloved friends, perhaps we Americans are finally
learning the most painful lesson of all -- that the USA is no
exception to the rules that govern the life cycles of nations -- that
republics are bound to turn into despotic empires.  That certain
structures and dynamics common to all societies ultimately predispose
them toward decadency and the degeneration of democracy.

All over the world now, people who see and who understand the crimes
that are afoot -- what the USA has been doing to the rest of the 
world
for generations -- will now, and henceforth, mock the very word
democracy.  It has already been happening in places like Pakistan and
Afghanistan.  Now, it will happen on a much broader basis.

Where is the hope, now, my friends?  Where is the hope?

With you, I will now anxiously await the commentaries from people 
that
we trust the most ... people whose minds are unsullied by conflicts 
of
interest and whose fidelity is to the truth and to the well-being of
the greatest numbers of people.

Will you join me in willingness to pay the ultimate cost of freedom? 
Our vigilance will be what is needed ... and our creative genius,
applied in ways it has never been applied before.  All bets are off
... all plans are on hold ... while we re-assess how to bring peace
into the world in the face of the US corporatist/militarist (fascist)
juggernaut.

John Wilmerding

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