Wednesday, November 03, 2004

Taken from a comment by a poster on wilwheaton.net:

Profile of someone who supports Bush:

I have a BA, a BS, and an MS.
I've scored in the 99th percentile in every standardized test I've evere taken (SAT, etc...).
I've attended both private and public universities.
I've traveled to about half the states in the USA.
I've studied 4 foreign languages, one for 6 years, the others just for a year or less each.
I've traveled to Europe (Germany, Amsterdam, France).
I've traveled to Asia (S. Korea).

I'm not stupid, I'm not ignorant, I'm not a naive.

I'm a lapsed Episcopalian who is hardly a fanatic.

I have gay friends and would like to seem them able to get legal marriages.

I don't support abortion, but I don't support making it illegal.

So why did I vote for Bush? I know plenty of others like me. You can't write us all off as morons or fools. We're not. We're not ultraconservative wackos, either.



Interesting. I particularly don't understand the notion of people being sheep for following Bush. I really don't get this mentality. This is how democracy is supposed to work. There isn't even the 'popular vote' thing to hide behind this time. The majority of the voters voted for Bush and he'll be President again. I don't understand this whole idea of 'we know better than everyone else' or 'everyone else in America is dumb' that seems to be going around the net today...and I didn't even vote for Bush.

My response to anybody saying they want to flee to Canada would be of the "don't let the door hit ya..." variety. It's basically the old "I didn't get my way and I'm going off to sulk" line.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

it's not that i didnt get my way so i want to sulk, its that because i didnt get my way my life may be negatively affected and id rather move to another country than not get to do things that i beleive should be within my right

Rich said...

I guess I shouldn't have said 'sulk'...I just get mad when people say stuff like that. Not being a member of a group whose rights are in danger doesn't help me understand that view unfortunately. I don't feel this past Bush Presidency has taken away my personal rights in any way. Perhaps I'm just ignorant. (seriously)