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Politics is entertainment.
Despite all the bickering and posturing everything that is going on now would still be going on – the economy, the war in Iraq, you name it, it would still be going on pretty much the same. I get a lot of argument about this view.
“Al Gore wouldn’t have invaded Iraq!”
Hooey.
As we’ve all seen lately in the who-knew-what-about- WMDs blamefest, there is no denying that the policy of the Clinton-Gore Administration was regime change in Iraq because of the threat of WMDs. Anyone who has been paying attention longer than last Wednesday knows that. Gore brought the subject up many times during the 2000 campaign. Ignore anything he has said since then. A hypothetical President Gore would have taken us into Iraq probably quicker than President Bush. The only difference would be that Democrats would have embraced the invasion as a humanitarian mission (see Kosovo), and the Republicans would have been against it. That’s the way the game is played. It really is hilarious to watch.
I live in a small town on an island just off the east coast. It has been undergoing a furious explosion of development during the past decade or so. Earlier this month we had a local election that was a battle between two factions. On the one hand you had evil developers. On the other hand were different evil developers. One side portrayed itself as the future of the fun recreational lifestyle. The other was sincere in preserving our historical past (which never existed).
What it was really about was who would get to control where the sewer lines would go next.
It was even more fun to watch than the hysteria over the war.
I have a daughter who is a junior in college. She attends a small private university of about 5,000 students. It is not connected with the state university system. She is a smart cookie, but like many girls her age (actually everyone at every age) she’s always been more interested in pop culture than in news and politics. Since her major is requiring her to take a lot of government and current history courses she’s become more aware of what is going on.
I’d been curious to see if she was being filled with a lot of liberal bad ideas at school. It turns out that most of her teachers are very balanced in their views, although she has had a couple of real flaming libs. She calls or emails me a lot about what she is being taught and to my surprise she is curiously resistant to indoctrination. I seem to have raised a skeptic, unless she is just telling me what I want to hear. Those with children know this tactic very well. Why it surprises me that my child is a skeptic is a mystery, I mean, she is my daughter, after all.
