Although this video was made by people obviously hostile to Barack Obama, it is instructive about one thing: these are the sort of people who in California voted for Obama for whatever reason and voted against the basic human right of marriage for gay people. Does anyone think that any of the people in the video could articulate logical, fact-based reasons why they voted for Obama? How many of these people could possibly express a coherent, rational opinion why gay people should not get married or why as voters they believe themselves empowered to deprive a class of people of fundamental rights? Did you read that piece by Chris Hedges about the vast and growing class of illiterate and nearly illiterate Americans who simply cannot think reasonably about their world and respond only to images and emotions? These are some of the people he was talking about. And lest you think I am partisan, the results would have been exactly the same had twelve supporters of John McCain been interviewed. That is the frightful state of political life in this democracy.
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