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Religions > Atheism |
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"maff" |
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05 Nov 2004 04:56:31 AM |
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Onward Christian soldiers |
Onward Christian soldiers
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1343956,00.html
The hopefuls in the Democrat camp really believed victory in the US
election was within their grasp. How did they get it so wrong? They
failed to appreciate, says Simon Schama, that their country is now in
fact two nations that loathe and fear each other - Godly and Worldly
America
Friday November 5, 2004
The Guardian
In the wee small hours of November 3 2004, a new country appeared on
the map of the modern world: the DSA, the Divided States of America.
Oh yes, I know, the obligatory pieties about "healing" have begun; not
least from the lips of the noble Loser. This is music to the ears of
the Victor of course, who wants nothing better than for us all to Come
Together, a position otherwise known as unconditional surrender.
Please, fellow curmudgeons and last ditchers, can someone on the
losing side just for once not roll over and fall into a warm bath of
patriotic platitudes at such moments, but toot the flute of battle
instead; yell and holler and snarl just a wee bit? I don't want to
heal the wound, I want to scratch the damned thing until it hurts and
bleeds - and then maybe we'll have what it takes to get up from the
mat. Do we think the far-right Republican candidate Barry Goldwater,
in the ashy dawn of his annihilation in 1964, wanted to share? Don't
think so. He wanted to win; sometime. And now, by God, he has.
Simon Schama
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