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01/21/2004 Archived Entry: "They like Bush, and they are not stupid"

Posted by steve @ 06:41 PM EST [Link]

THE NOT STUPID PARTY: (Via Brothers Judd Blog) Earlier this month a clod named Neil Starkman wrote a column in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer claiming that the reason why people supported George W. Bush was, gosh darned it, because they are stupid. Channeling Michael Moore, he wrote that they are the type of people who just don't understand the wider world. Said Starkman:

The answer, I'm afraid, is the factor that dare not speak its name. It's the factor that no one talks about. The pollsters don't ask it, the media don't report it, the voters don't discuss it.

I, however, will blare out its name so that at last people can address the issue and perhaps adopt strategies to overcome it.

It's the "Stupid factor," the S factor: Some people -- sometimes through no fault of their own -- are just not very bright.

Well, Caroline Overington of The Age has a different opinion of why Americans support Dubya.

Americans support the war in Iraq and, by extension, Bush because they see it as part of a bigger picture. Like everybody, they now know that Saddam was not the threat they thought he was (at least, not to them) but they still think it was a good idea to deal with him, before he became one.

The price of freedom is high. You might think you would not sacrifice your life for it, but maybe you don't have to. After all, 20-year-old Americans are doing it for you, every day.

The saddest moment of 2003 was when I realized that Canadian soldiers would not be marching beside their American and British cousins and fighting for liberty.