At 08:25 PM 10/24/2004 -0700 Doug Pensinger wrote: >> It strikes me as a fair reading of Dr. Brin's comments to this List for >> some time now - that Republicans are enemies of the United States, and >> Republican policies are never the product of rational thought, but are >> instead the product of this enmity. > >He has repeatedly indicted the Bush administration rather than Republicans >in general. So no, that's not a fair reading at all.
Try again. At 12:41 PM 7/4/2004 -0700 d.brin wrote: >In fact, GOP support >PEAKS at education levels just below a bachelor's >degree. As education rises further, support for the >Republican Party plummets. Higher education gives >people different, but even more compelling reasons to >care deeply about saving the future. > >Goppers dismiss this as the 'fuzzy-headed egghead >effect." But you and I know that ain't it. And again: At 08:51 PM 9/13/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: >What we are seeing makes sense in one way, if you look >at the "Red-vs-Blue State" maps and recall one thing. >During the Civil War the plains and mountain states >were so rife with rebel sympathisers that the Army and >state governments kept to the towns and maintained a >very low profile. > >In effect, ladies and gents, what we are seeing is the >conquest of the United States of America by the >Confederacy. > >They are getting their revenge. The whole NASCAR >good-old-boy thing. Only a long simmering grudge >could explain the incredible severity of hatred that >they express toward liberals who AT WORST were >patronizing about wanting to save the world. > >The grudge is against the Union. And we of the USA >need to wake up. Wear blue. Start singing the Battle >Hymn of the Republic. > >Take our nation back. And of course, Dr. Brin's long-running smack-down of the GOP: At 09:02 PM 9/14/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: >No, it consists of CHALLENGING guys like you to come >up with ONE great accomplishment of Post WWI whose >intellectual roots lie within the GOP. And the kicker: At 08:03 PM 9/16/2004 -0700 David Brin wrote: >While I admired Barry Goldwater and >could at least respect Bob Dole, and have hopes for >GuvAhnold, I despise the utter nastiness, >idea-bereftness, hatefulness, shrill intemperate >jingoism, rapaciously insatiable kleptomania and >slavish devotion to the Saudi Royal House ofthe >present GOP. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
