The gods must be crazy - Bush won because desert farming always creates

[NVMojo]

wrathful religions ...

"The pundits say the secret of the U.S. election - some secret - is that a burning bush of otherworldly evangelical religion and bigotry triumphed over rest-of-the-worldly cosmopolitanism and yuppiness.

Though my editor will pull her hair out to see my food obsession go to these lengths, I will try to show that the real secret – as in hidden in plain sight, like the food in the refrigerator many men can never see – of the U.S. election is that bread-and-butter matters, specifically agricultural, defined the key divisions.

God, gays, guns and grizzlies, said to be the issues that brought out the vote for President Bush in the hinterland, coalesced because of underlying habits of the North American food system. Lest anyone think such trends are exclusive to the U.S., the same habits may well account for the Conservative voting strength that's mostly limited to dispossessed rural areas of ontario and western Canada."

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