Monday, October 25, 2004Richard Rushfield had an interesting idea. He put on pro-Kerry duds and wandered around Bush country. Then he threw on a Bush shirt and went to Leftyville.In Bush country, a few people seemed a bit surprised by his Kerry shirt but opted to treat him like a human being. In the land of the left, though, Bushwear got glares, curses and other intimidation. Not surprising. Once you've bought into the "the personal is political" line long enough, your political opponents really aren't part of the common humanity anymore, just a threat to it. Or maybe Republicans are just by nature more civilized. The experiment proved revealing to the author. May I confess that I could have told him how it would turn out in advance? 
posted by gbarto at 3:05 AM |
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