Should you engage a * supporter, ask them one simple question:

[Oeditpus Rex]

"Is this the America you want?"




Make it a mantra.

[Kutjara]

1. Oh, I thought you were going to ask a different question.

Like, "do you feel lucky, punk?"

[BlueStater]

2. Bush-loving loonies are a lost cause

Don't be fooled, though. The kind of morons you see on FreakRepublic and various usenet groups are in the minority.

I can't imagine that any REAL Republicans support this raping of our country.

[Marr]

3. Roughly 30% of them could be easily convinced that

what they want is a series of camps in which to house (and perhaps gas) political dissidents. Anyone from your local peace activists to Keith Olbermann.

And thanks to our present Congress, Bush could do it legally.

[MrCoffee]

4. They're too scared and stupefied by Survivor to say anything but yes

[Kiouni]

5. I like to ask them to tell me one

thing that the shrub has done that was good. One thing, I'll wait....

[TheWatcher]

6. Sadly, This IS the America they want

Because there is not much difference between them and Dear Leader.

What you need to understand is this:

Bush makes them feel empowered.

Bush makes lying OK.

Cheating to get ahead is not only OK, it's a just way to live.

Intolerance is OK.

Hate is OK.

Violence and Murder is the way to communicate with those who disagree with you.

Bush validates them, because they see at last you really don't have to work constantly to improve yourself spiritually and morally. It is not necessary to engage or understand or comprimise with those you disagree with. It is not necessary to co-exist. Just destroy, and get yours. Fuck Everyone else.

You see, Bush validated everything about them that is bad.

The only question for them is "Are you willing to co-exist?"

If they will not co-exist with the rest of the human race, and they are intent on destroying the rest of us to have their world, their way, the question for us is simple:

"What are we going to do about it?"

It's too late for them.

We need to worry about us.

[ima_sinnic]

7. their simple-minded reply: "everything changed after 9/11"

... it is impossible to talk rationally with a *bot. they are ruled by fear and have only simple-minded slogans with which to argue. it is though their wiring has been replaced with something else. no matter how logical, truthful, or sensible your argument, they will always come back with a trite phrase, a sound-bite, a cliche with no substance, only unthinking acceptance.

[tenshi816]

10. To that I have to ask:

"What, exactly, changed?" Aside from a good chunk of the population being in a constant state of anxiety because of being told that "everything changed after 9/11", that is.

Terrorists wanted to kill us before 9/11 and the only thing that's changed is that, thanks to Bush's war in Iraq, there are a lot more terrorists who want to kill Americans (and now they want to kill the British too!). That's all that's changed.

Also, when they inevitably bring Bill Clinton into the conversation, my response is that after the Republicans took over the government, it no longer mattered what Clinton did or didn't do. Even if he had done nothing (and we know that's not true), it still wouldn't excuse the Bush adminstration for doing nothing about terrorism themselves for the 8 months prior to 9/11.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. Another Thing That Changed. . .

. . .is that the Bushbots finally caught up. I knew that there were people who hated the U.S. before 9/11. I knew there were terrorists organizations that wanted to directly target the U.S. mainland before 9/11. I knew there were two fatwas issued by binLaden calling for the death of americans and the destruction of the United States, before 9/11.

So, what changed after 9/11 was that the dumbasses have caught up. Finally! And it's scared the daylights out of them.
The Professor

[sandnsea]

8. Yes it is

I think that's a reality that many DUers have just not been able to see or willing to see. YES this is the America many Americans want. They live in gerrymandered districts and elect their own to the House, sometimes Democrats even. Some whole states are disrespectful of the Bill of Rights and the entire concept of humane treatment for criminals or suspected criminal. Once in a while a Democrat slips through these states and we get them in the Senate. This hasn't been invasion of the body snatchers, this has been the unmasking of the most base instincts of many of our fellow citizens. This is a fight for the soul of our country at home, as well as around the globe. Congress is only one piece of that fight. We have to start mobilizing at the local level if we have any chance of turning this mess around.

[Dem2theMax]

9. Right now I'm so mad that I don't think any * supporters should

be within 50 yards of me. They don't want to hear what I have to say to them.

[lumberjack_jeff]

11. It is the america they want.

They DO think that anyone who disagrees with them should be disappeared and tortured. Their beautiful minds should be forever untroubled by those people again through annoying things like trials, courts and due process.

[Mutley]

12. They'd say "yes" of course

and they'd actually believe it.

The thing is, they think that all the bad things the Wregime is doing are just conspiracy theories cooked up by us crazy moonbats.

They Think everything is fine and dandy.

[genie_weenie]

14. Would you sacrifice your son for Bush? n/t