Why does so much so-called conservative ideology revolve around either the suffering or the degrading of others? I don't get it. It's like you can't be happy unless you are somehow contributing to the misery of others.

Sal


On Aug 14, 2005, at 9:57 AM, shempmcgurk wrote:

George Will once wrote a column on war and censorship. He noted that
during the U.S. Civil War there was one particularly gruesome
battle -- I think it was Antietam -- in which the carnage was
particularly horrible. He suggested that if there was television at
that time and color photography and that it was broadcast into
people's homes the way the Vietnam War was, that there would have
been such a hue and cry in the North over the folly of war that an
antiwar movement would have started up and succeeded and, today,
there would be two United States: a northern one and a southern
one...WITH slavery intact.

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