The European reality is nothing like the fantasy picture they're painting of it.
I am growing very tired of living in a culture where facts are not only dismissed as irrelevant to a debate, but actively to be shunned. It's like being trapped inside someone else's schizophrenia.
I guess it's progress of a sort when even the worst bigots know there are certain opinions too disgusting to speak in public.
Right now it just seems to mean they find new codes to couch it in. Attacking the American-ness of Obama's proposals, insisting he's not an American citizen, demonizing socialized medicine—it all comes down to not one of us. For which I can only think thank God, because their vision of America is not somewhere I feel at home, but I worry that far too many people in this country do.
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Date: 2009-08-14 05:45 pm (UTC)I am growing very tired of living in a culture where facts are not only dismissed as irrelevant to a debate, but actively to be shunned. It's like being trapped inside someone else's schizophrenia.
I guess it's progress of a sort when even the worst bigots know there are certain opinions too disgusting to speak in public.
Right now it just seems to mean they find new codes to couch it in. Attacking the American-ness of Obama's proposals, insisting he's not an American citizen, demonizing socialized medicine—it all comes down to not one of us. For which I can only think thank God, because their vision of America is not somewhere I feel at home, but I worry that far too many people in this country do.