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...election behind them and work together. We have a President, however, who has alienated half of this country and most of the rest of the world by his irresponsible actions. Asking those who are sickened by Bush's past four years to declare a truce is like asking a fundamentalist Christian to have lunch with the devil. It's not going to happen. Richard Moberg Philadelphia...
Kerry, like many other Democrats, never truly understood this reality. He did not bother to visit the Southern Baptist Convention or any other fundamentalist group to say, Look, we're going to disagree on some issues, but there are lots of things we have in common, and I want to hear your point of view. He did not take a "listening tour" through rural Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi; he simply ignored the South. When Whoopi Goldberg lewdly compared the President to a body part in her southern hemisphere, Kerrywho was in the audiencecame onstage and said entertainers like Goldberg represented...
Third thing I know for sure: Democrats cannot cede values to the Republicans. The liberal conventional wisdom that Kerry lost because millions of homophobic, fundamentalist rednecks emerged from thousands of trailer parks to vote for the first time is nonsense. Bush won majorities not just of white men and evangelicals, but of white women, married people, high school and college graduates, couples with children, voters who make above $50,000, people over thirty and weekly churchgoers. The president increased his share of the Latino vote by seven points, the African-American vote by two points and the Jewish vote...
...Republicans in Washington. Nixon Benoit Malden, Massachusetts, U.S. For young Americans and young Iraqis to kill each other in a continuing cycle of violence in no way furthers the antiterrorism cause. Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam. Daniel T. Arcieri Blue Point, New York Who Owns the Next Century? Jeremy Rifkin's book the European Dream...
...political bureaucracy that pulls out all the stops to perpetuate itself. The clergy has become a ruling class that arbitrarily makes decrees significantly affecting people's lives. Church leaders rule with fear as well as love. Small children are indoctrinated mercilessly. So I wonder whether, in the fundamentalist denominations, religious belief is caused by the God gene or just good old-fashioned coercion...