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Thanks to some contested ballots in a state governed by the president’s brother, a once-proud country has been delivered into the hands of liars, thugs, bullies, fanatics and thieves. The world pities or despises us, even as it fears us. What this election will test is the power of money and media to fool us, to obscure the truth and alter the obvious, to hide a great crime against the public trust under a blood-soaked flag.

This ties in well with the NYTimes piece by Ron Suskind: there’s a mistrust, bordering on hatred, from the heartland for the skeptics who live on the coasts (yes, I know these are generalizations but they’re not completely meaningless).

Crowther/With Trembling Fingers:

I don’t think it’s accurate to describe America as polarized between Democrats and Republicans, or between liberals and conservatives. It’s polarized between the people who believe George Bush and the people who do not.

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