Just word to everything here. Especially about everything being replaced by Bush's face. I remember recently somebody writing an article about the GOP convention where it talked about how he had come to be behind Bush after he handled 9/11 so well and I thought...what? What did Bush handle well about 9/11? He floundered for a while, then started talking a big game about catching bin Laden and not doing it, then he whipped everybody up into a frenzy of fear. And yet people are convinced that something really bad would have happened if somebody else had been president.
It's just such a shame because there were these pockets that showed you exactly what you should aspire to, with the firemen or perhaps even more the people on that last flight who went down. There was nothing they could do to save themselves, so they spent their last few minutes saving others and doing something good. I mean, think about that. They had more reason to be terrified than anyone--they didn't even have the training or experience of firemen, yet they could keep their cool by doing something worthwhile.
I just think of people during WW2 for instance, where they could get behind doing little things like Victory gardens or rationed food because people were able to show that it made them part of the fight. This government has done everything it can to keep people out of the fight: just let us make the decisions. You can't do anything without us protecting you. Feh.
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Date: 2004-11-05 02:11 pm (UTC)It's just such a shame because there were these pockets that showed you exactly what you should aspire to, with the firemen or perhaps even more the people on that last flight who went down. There was nothing they could do to save themselves, so they spent their last few minutes saving others and doing something good. I mean, think about that. They had more reason to be terrified than anyone--they didn't even have the training or experience of firemen, yet they could keep their cool by doing something worthwhile.
I just think of people during WW2 for instance, where they could get behind doing little things like Victory gardens or rationed food because people were able to show that it made them part of the fight. This government has done everything it can to keep people out of the fight: just let us make the decisions. You can't do anything without us protecting you. Feh.