To Ahmadinejad, with Love
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| September 25, 2007
| Tim
Yes, it's tragic, but it's also funny. Via LGF, a denizen of DailyKos writes:
Why I Have A Little Crush on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
I know I'm a Jewish lesbian and he'd probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon.... I can’t help but be turned on by his frank rhetoric calling out the horrors of the Bush Administration and, for that matter, generations of US foreign policy preceding...
After saying how impressed she is with Ahmadinejad, and how similar his statements are to her worldview ("this isn’t out there, lunatic, flaming anti-American rhetoric. This is simply a powerful and accurate critique of the United States..."), she closes this way:
It striking when a leader with an abysmal human rights record is the one championing the rights of the poor and oppressed to the president of the United States who proclaims to be the world’s savior.
It astounds me that you can reach drinking age and never learn that dictators almost always speak about their deep, deep concern for the poor and downtrodden. Either our educational system has utterly failed her (no shock) or she's willfully blind to the last hundred years of history.
(No, it's worse, actually: it's as if it never occurred to her that someone who might "have me killed" might engage in deception. Only Republicans can lie, apparently -- though I'm reasonably sure she's never seriously thought one of those might have her killed for being Jewish or a lesbian.)
I also wonder why it doesn't seem odd to them: Hey, I seem to be thinking the exact same way a dictator thinks! I find his rhetoric very appealing! Hmmm... I wonder if that might indicate something's amiss?
I suppose there's also some other explanation for this Kos poll (almost half of Kos-ites would prefer Ahmadinejad as the US President) -- but it's not leaping to mind immediately.
It striking when a leader with an abysmal human rights record is the one championing the rights of the poor and oppressed to the president of the United States who proclaims to be the world’s savior.
Contradiction... brain hurting...
Dumb question, but does championing mean giving lip-service in this new young lingo?
This is the second time today I find myself saying "Stupidity shouldn't ever astound me at this point, yet I still find it often does."
Dumb question, but does championing mean giving lip-service in this new young lingo?
I fear it doesn't. She actually doesn't seem to understand he's simply lying to her.
I concerns me that people so morally non-discerning are such a strong political force, and apparently have such a strong need to gain power.
I find myself saying "Stupidity shouldn't ever astound me at this point, yet I still find it often does."
My girlfriend is continually amused that I'm still surprised, each and every time, when some lefty I'm having a dialog with shuts down or runs away in response to some simple, direct questions, or contrary evidence.
Just remember how many dumb people thought Hitler was some kind of a great and peaceful world leader who actually had the right idea about the world. Apparently utopia includes a lot of innocent dead people to the blind masses. Just remember being young and anti Bush is cool and actually paying attention to what's really going on and what is really being said is not. It still hurts my head but I have hope that some of the next generation will somehow grow a brain and be able to see through this.
Just remember how many dumb people thought Hitler was some kind of a great and peaceful world leader who actually had the right idea about the world...
Indeed: there were a number of people who directly admired him (Charles Lindberg, etc.) and a larger group who shared much ideological ground with him (the American "progressive" movement and eugenicists).
I have hope that some of the next generation will somehow grow a brain and be able to see through this.
Some will -- if they want to know the truth. Took me a while to figure it out.
My brain has been struggling to try to find an analogy (if that's the right word), and this is what it came up with: does anyone else remember the Disney version of Pinocheo (pardon the spelling), the part where he and a lot of other children are lured by fast talk and treats into ditching school; and they end up in I think it was a mine, only to find themselves turned into donkeys? Let's hope this person and others like her wake up, like Pinocheo, before it's too late.
Its already too late. She already is a donkey and apparently loving every minute of it.
It's noteworthy in that story that little children who buy into lies turn into democrats - i mean donkey pary members - i mean donkeys. You buy into lies and you become a donkey
You buy into lies and you become a donkey...
Sigh. It's a bit of slam, but I'm sad to say it seems to be true. It's all well and good if what you get out if is some amusement (this whole thread, for example) but the effect on society and the world truly bothers me at times.
In the name of caring about the poor, they embrace policies like a "living wage" (and "welfare") which increase poverty. They say they care about illiteracy among the poor yet vote for a party which consistently works to block any meaningful educational reform.
And on and on...
And there's apparently nothing you can do to snap them out of it. No amount of data, evidence, personal pleading, etc, can reach them.
Again, it would only be amusing if, like the Donkey-boys in Pinocchio, the only harm was to themselves. But they harm others, rather than admit perhaps they've swallowed the same lies we're all prey to, at first.
Sorry to be dour. Sometimes I wish I could engage in partisan sniping with glee, but it's all too real. And the worst part (or is it best part, in terms of character development?) is that these people, the ones who I view as doing such harm, are often people I care deeply about.
Can she find the Middle East on Map ? And no no sweetie the Middle East is not Virginia.
Rob - I'm not so sure that her lack of knowledge about Iran is actually the issue here.
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It striking when a leader with an abysmal human rights record is the one championing the rights of the poor and oppressed to the president of the United States who proclaims to be the world’s savior.
Contradiction... brain hurting...
Dumb question, but does championing mean giving lip-service in this new young lingo?
This is the second time today I find myself saying "Stupidity shouldn't ever astound me at this point, yet I still find it often does."
Posted by: Michael Zappe on September 25, 2007 11:59 PM