I love the way dittoheads deny they are dittoheads the moment they are confronted. Like most people, they are ashamed to admit they agree with a demogouge, but lack the moral clarity or personal vision to stand up for what is right when they are alone.

Here's how to recognize a dittohead, ideas lifted from one far more eloquent than I:

1) Supreme belief in the cult of tradition: things will be okay because we are Americans, because we always do what is right, our forefathers made this a christian state and we should do all we can to preserve it, yada yada...

2) Rejecting modernism: Feminazis, the NEA, the UN, multiculturalism...

3) Irrationalism: GWB's skewed speech and flawed logic are celebrated as distinctly American

4) Action for Action's Sake: Iraq! Yee ha!

5) Disagreement is Treason: Liberals are Anti-American

6) Fear of Difference: Muslims, Islam, free-thinkers - we must eliminate them all! Get those scientists in line with policy.

7) Appeal to a frustrated Middle Class - Limbaugh is on the air 16-24 hours a day in some states.

8) Obsession with a plot - Clinton was out to sell America's missile secrets and murder everyone who got in the way...

9) Humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies - Kerry is a billionaire yet claims to be one of us!

10) Pacisifism is trafficing with the Enemy - The very essence of the attacks led by talk-radio hosts against antiwar protesters.
11) Life is Eternal Warfare - the war on drugs, the war on terrorism, the war on illiteracy, etc.

12) Contempt for the Weak - Spineless liberal bastards

13) Against rotten parlimentary governments - remember all those rants against big government?

14) Newsspeak - the creation of empty phrases combining opposite ideas - peace is war.

Substitute your favorite term for despiser of freedom where appropriate.

M

Sam Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Damn, that's a door I shouldn't have opened.
I don't listen to Rush often enough to defend him but
when I do listen or read his Website I'm truley
impressed.
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