A Berkeley commentator tries to explain why a French friend is afraid to visit "savage America," and provides a glimpse of the distortions, lies, and fear-mongering which substitute for thinking in the current American Left. One quote:
The Bush Administration believes not only that the President is above the law, but also that he defines the law. That the office of the President prescribes American reality. While giving lip service to democracy, they disdain majority rule, seek to form a plutocracy. This is the savage America revered by political conservatives.
Read it all. This guy lives in a different reality from the one I live in. If I believed what he says, I'd be very upset too: these are the folks who will be puzzled if Bush doesn't stage a military coup before 2008.
Image: The Feast of Attila the Hun, by Mor Than. Contrary to common impression, Attila was educated in Rome, in the court of Emperor Honorius. That education, however, never affected his imperialist, warlike nature.