NationStates Jolt Archive

Interesting Guardian article about novelist Tom Wolfe. He supports Bush!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918,1340525,00.html

I took issue with this one


I think support for Bush is about not wanting to be led by East-coast pretensions. It is about not wanting to be led by people who are forever trying to force their twisted sense of morality onto us, which is a non-morality. That is constantly done, and there is real resentment.
This is ironic. Liberals are not about forcing amorality, they are about allowing people to choose their own morality. People can be religious moralists if they want, and they can choose not to be. I don't understand how liberals are "trying to force their twisted sense of morality" onto anyone. Bush represents forcing moralist values onto everybody. I such a society you would have to be a religious moralist. You could not choose to be "amoral".

P.S. I waited until after the election so that this didn't appear to be a partisan flame against Bush.

Exactly. That seems to have been one of the key tenets of the Bush campaign: 'Find out why people don't like us and accuse the Kerry campaign of it.'

I can't believe that fascist actually won, and I can't believe Kerry didn't bother to fight for every vote like Edwards said they would.

I can't believe Kerry didn't bother to fight for every vote like Edwards said they would.
The time to fight for votes is before the election. Even with some token legal wrangling the election would be unwinnable for Kerry.

Kerry also made the good point that taking the case to court would further divide the already frighteningly polarised country. That's integrity.

Tom Wolfe, as we know, is extremely opinionated, and very free-thinking. His books were masterpeices, like my favorite of his, [u]Bonfires of Vanity[/b]. And we all know about his love of white suits.