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posted by [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com at 04:50am on 20/01/2005
Just repeat the following mantras of the administration:

"Whatever we do is good, because we're the good guys."
"The ends justify the means."
"I'm pro-life, and that's what's important."

It may not make anything any better, but it will quiet those questioning voices in the back of your brain, which will almost certainly make you a better American.
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posted by [identity profile] rfunk.livejournal.com at 05:28am on 20/01/2005
The scary thing is that they truly believe all those things.

If this is what the good guys think, the bad guys are sounding better all the time. So much for our top diplomat winning people over.

The first mantra reminds me of that famous tautology I do remember from my early churchgoing years, "God is good."

Oh, and is it pro-life, or just pro-birth?

Ah well, I'm just not so good at this cognitive dissonance thing. How do they do it? I guess it's just a matter of heavy practice.

But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.

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Re: cognitive dissonance

posted by [identity profile] featherynscale.livejournal.com at 05:52am on 20/01/2005
Well, I started with the 6 impossible things before breakfast routine, then moved up from there to understanding things like modern paganism, theater of the absurd, and CNN crawler headlines. After that, dealing with the hard right is not so difficult.

(I'll be undergoing a brief procedure to extract my tongue from my cheek later today - everything will be fine.)
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posted by [identity profile] nicosomething.livejournal.com at 07:06pm on 20/01/2005
Pro-birth, that's far more accurate. It's hard to justify being pro-life and pro-capital punishment and pro-war, yet the administration and many of its supporters seem to have no problem with the concept.
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