Five years ago, a student wrote a paper on why W was a hero (I ditched that assignment for other reasons after that semester, thank God), and one of his reasons was that he was a morally upright man who had never succumbed to the temptations of drugs. I may have flailed a bit in much purple ink that one of Bush's talking points was that he'd been an addict but found God. The thing is, this kid hadn't run across faulty information. Just, in his head, Bush was a hero, heroes didn't do drugs, ergo...
(BTW, one of his other points was that Bush had defended his country by serving in the military. I may have cried.)
A year after that, my mother, whom I love dearly and who was valedictorian of her high school class, but whose approach to life these days is not to think much about things beyond her day to day life, expressed the sincere belief that we ought to re-elect Bush because he was already President, and we just shouldn't change horses midstream even if we didn't like where the horse was going. I couldn't bring myself to ask her why she thought we had four year terms at all, then.
It just doesn't surprise me anymore. Depresses me, yes.
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Date: 2007-09-08 06:37 am (UTC)(BTW, one of his other points was that Bush had defended his country by serving in the military. I may have cried.)
A year after that, my mother, whom I love dearly and who was valedictorian of her high school class, but whose approach to life these days is not to think much about things beyond her day to day life, expressed the sincere belief that we ought to re-elect Bush because he was already President, and we just shouldn't change horses midstream even if we didn't like where the horse was going. I couldn't bring myself to ask her why she thought we had four year terms at all, then.
It just doesn't surprise me anymore. Depresses me, yes.