{"id":113,"date":"2004-11-15T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2004-11-15T18:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2004-11-15T11:55:57","modified_gmt":"2004-11-15T18:55:57","slug":"this-kills-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2004\/11\/15\/this-kills-me\/","title":{"rendered":"This kills me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I don’t understand people that say they think that Kerry running the country wouldn’t really make “that big” of a difference. Read this list of facts<\/a> from The Nation<\/em>, and the editorial from the Nov. 1 issue of the New Yorker<\/em> entitled “The Choice”. Each clearly demonstrates, in my opinion, that George W. Bush is the most arrogant, ignorant, evil, and harmful leader our country has ever elected. Sure, everyone does stupid things, and makes bad decisions, and if you put them all together in a list like that, out of context, with no positive remarks, anyone could then be made to look like the devil. So, show me an equivalent list of 100 good things George W. has done, and I’ll shut the hell up.<\/p>\n

Theo<\/a> recently remarked on his blog that as a conservative he’s tired of being summarily dismissed, or immediately classified somewhere in the KKK, brain-dead, right-wing christian, biggoted nut-job demographic. I happen to live with Theo, and have noticed since the election (and just before) that he’s been close-mouthed (with me, at least) about all things political. We don’t normally talk politics anyway, so it wouldn’t normally be a big deal, but recently I have tried to prod him into some conversation or debate, and get fairly summary responses. So hopefully he doesn’t think I’m one of those who’s pigeon-holed all conservatives into a one-step-up-from-denizen-of-hell conglomeration. I’m not. I am genuinely curious, though, because I’ve yet to hear any justification or positive remark for Bush beyond “Kerry wouldn’t do much better, anyway”. Generally, I don’t enjoy political conversation. Lately, I’ve felt like starting up a huge, rollicking debate with intelligent peers from both sides of the political spectrum. Maybe I just need to go back to Evergreen and take a class in Current American Issues or something. Maybe I just need to go live in a cave. I don’t know.<\/p>\n

This fellow<\/a> has an interesting notion that the current discouragement that youth might be feeling could lead to a rise in intellectual query and particularly, a boom in existentialism. If only such wonderful things could be true.<\/p>\n

But don’t forget, Sartre also said l’enfer c’est les autres<\/em><\/a>. [hell is other people]<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t understand people that say they think that Kerry running the country wouldn’t really make “that big” of a difference. Read this list of facts from The Nation, and the editorial from the Nov. 1 issue of the New Yorker entitled “The Choice”. Each clearly demonstrates, in my opinion, that George W. Bush is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}