watched a training film in first grade on how to tell if your school is overtaken by Russians
Red Dawn, man. *nods* I don't think our generation quite got the Godless-Commies indoctrination in the same way as the one before us, but the Soviet Russia was still totally the bogeyman under the bed. Interestingly, we were told the same things about Russians as people are being told about "the insurgents" today: that they hate us because we're free. *cues Sting, "Russians"*
I... I don't even know what to do. My knee-jerk reaction to the politics of fear is facts, but Fox and Rush and the Bush administration cast facts into doubt every single day. If careful explanation doesn't make a dent, I've got nuthin'.
(Interestingly, my dad and my sortof-maybe-uncle were cracking dumb!Bush jokes over lunch yesterday. Dad was a Ford-and-Reagan conservative, but hell he raised me and he's suprised me before. Good thoughts.)
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Date: 2004-12-27 09:26 pm (UTC)Red Dawn, man. *nods* I don't think our generation quite got the Godless-Commies indoctrination in the same way as the one before us, but the Soviet Russia was still totally the bogeyman under the bed. Interestingly, we were told the same things about Russians as people are being told about "the insurgents" today: that they hate us because we're free. *cues Sting, "Russians"*
I... I don't even know what to do. My knee-jerk reaction to the politics of fear is facts, but Fox and Rush and the Bush administration cast facts into doubt every single day. If careful explanation doesn't make a dent, I've got nuthin'.
(Interestingly, my dad and my sortof-maybe-uncle were cracking dumb!Bush jokes over lunch yesterday. Dad was a Ford-and-Reagan conservative, but hell he raised me and he's suprised me before. Good thoughts.)