Reply #14: Sheeple, lemmings....take your pick.

[Liberal Veteran]

Other than a select few, they aren't really doing much at all except listening and regurgitating what they get from the likes of AM radio and Fox News.

Just look at those silly "Support Our Troops" ribbons. For less than the cost of a single latte, you to can "support" the troops in the most meaningless way imaginable, by sticking a non-defacing magnetic sticker on your car.

I can't tell that these people are cognizant of facts at all anymore.

The Iraqi people are now apparently ALL terrorists (or at least those who don't support our occupation) and we elected a nutjob "C" student to the White House who fucking started a war based on a pack of lies and killed 10's of thousands of people in the process. Apparently because they have bought into this oft-repeated notion given to them by the talking heads from paragraph 1 that the democratic party would do nothing to combat terrorism and that we really want a president who espouses the kind of McChristian values that our country has become famous for (a veneer of values and piety that hides an incredible amount of greed and self-importance and hatred that lies just beneath the surface).

And then when you really drill down into these people and try to figure out how they think, very few give compelling answers. We get shit like "Well, I just didn't like the way Kerry looked" or "Bush is someone I'd like to have a beer with" or "I didn't get Kerry's message" (which is kind of hard to do when you have your eyes and ears glued to the likes of Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh and think you are getting "fair and balanced" opinion) or the ever frustrating "I'm not sure why I voted for Bush.".

Following the crowd of the edge of a cliff while you are being lied to and the information is right there if you simply open your eyes is being a sheeple or a lemming. It's not like you really have to work all that hard to see through the bullshit going on in our country.

So no, I don't feel bad about calling them sheeple or lemmings or any other word that describes the kind of people that allow themselves to be led by the nose by people they "think" are more informed than them and believing the spin even after it becomes apparent the spin is wrong.

It's a hell of a lot nicer than what they call us: traitors, America-haters, lowlifes, valueless, welfare bums, and a host of other nasty things.