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[fightingthecage]

I was checking my flist and came across this in the journal of newredshoes.

It's a...rant? No...POV, I guess, of an ex-Southern Conservative in American. And it's just given me a new insight into why people can vote for George W. Bush. Because I've asked myself a lot how people can do it - but this, this make sense.

It's not that long and very readable. And the person writing it is not a fan of Bush - she's just explaining how, from a religious standpoint, a large portion of the South think that Bush is stamping out Satan and doing God's work.

Maybe everyone in the US already knows this. But as a Brit, I found it fascinating. *recommends*

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[newredshoes]

Heck, I didn't know -- it's been a point of continuing frustration, not having any idea how someone could vote for a man as blatantly incompetent (among other things) as that rich fake-accent sonofabitch. (Fun fact: GWB was born in Connecticut and didn't pick up the Jed Clampett accent until 2000. Watch videos of him debating during the Texas gubernatorial campaign and he sounds a lot less home-on-the-range-y. Usually a person in this situation is called a carpetbagger.)

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* I was told that by someone when I was in LA two years ago, how he's from Connecticut - and I laughed my fucking ass off. Because seriously, what? And carpetbagging is most definitely frowned on here as well as there, but shit, I guess that sort of thing doesn't matter if you're a Bush, right? *eyeroll*

But thanks for linking to that article, I found it really interesting. It certainly explains quite a lot - and is also pretty worrying, given that I imagine Southern Christians to be pretty hard people to convince that, you know what? Persecution's a bad thing. They're kinda strange for going after it so much.

But hey, I guess if it works for the individual, then fine. I just object when it lands the world with a disaster like Shrub.

[catch22girl]

Reading that stuff depresses me a little. Because he didn't JUST win based on a religious standpoint (I remember reading that article after the election)

They ran on fear. The entire convention was about how if you vote for Kerry you're putting everyone in danger. Also, I don't think you can discount the voting machines.

I was talking to mary yesterday about how much the election of 2004 crushed my spirit, I just don't think that it's only about religion, although the gay marriage wedge issue probably did help.

I also don't think that every southern conservative is that ignorant - and the evolution thing and just...oh don't even get me started.

[fightingthecage.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* For sure, the war was the main thing, I would say. At the same time, it shows how some people maybe justified his position on...well, everything. While the Democrats and the rest of the world are thinking 'WTF?!', he's got a large base of people thinking that everything he does is vanquishing Satan, and therefore, they'll vote for him.

My point being, I suppose, that if people truly believe that they're being persecuted every day simply for being Christian, then it wouldn't really matter what he said. He's one of the 'Us' therefore he's golden.

And no, I'm sure not every southern conservative is ignorant. It's just being brought up to a certain way of thinking and there's nothing really wrong with that. It's just wrong when one of them becomes President of the most powerful country on Earth and starts acting on his own personal beliefs, rather than in the interests of the people of his country and the rest of the world.