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Three words for you: Hofstadter's "paranoid style"
I just wrote a paper for a class on this. In the '50s, Richard Hofstadter wrote about what he called the "paranoid style." There are essentially three main parts to this style:
1) a feeling of persecution of one's way of life/nation
2) an emphasis on evidence, and
3) a portrayal of "Good vs. Evil."

Bush has used this style to try to gather public support for the War on Terror. However, Jeff, before you get too happy on my agreeing with you, the Kerry campaign has used it right back. I don't completely agree with either side, but I must thank you for unknowingly supporting my paper by using this paranoid style. You were able to point to many sources (some of which I would consider less than credible by the layout of the pages--and yes, that is a big thing), and your claim to support the persecution and "Good vs. Evil" portions is that Bush is evil and John Kerry is the Savior of Worlds. It also goes along with a thesis topic I'm working on about how conspiracy theory is mainly (but not exclusively) a Democrat-weilded tool to use against Republicans.

Everyone's got to wake up and realize that it's not the voter that has control anymore. Corporate America runs the government by contributing to the candidates' campaigns, thus able to exclude others by out-spending them and getting mass name recognition.

This is the one year I wish I could have another choice: None of the above. But with Kerry's non-stance on everything, I honestly think he would be the worse President of the two.
Posted by: php_developer   Posted on: 10/27/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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