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CHAPTER 1: OPENING UP ONE’S EYES 5 We’re talking about the fact that most people see what they expect to see . . . On the pages of this book the reader will see my many references to the stupidity and/or ignorance of the American public. I am obviously only referring to the majority of the public, a position I stand firmly behind. But why insult the majority in this book? Because stupidity and ignorance, unfortunately, are not benign, being responsible for much of the misery and injustice in this world. For instance, the tragic war in Iraq has, unlike children, many parents, including the majority of Americans who gave their support to Bush for his war. Without it, Bush may not have gone to war. Just a few of the many other parents of the Iraq war are the considerable number of spineless congressional Democrats who rolled over and played dead during Bush’s rush to war, actually voting to authorize it; the media, which uncritically gave Bush almost a free pass during his propaganda campaign to sell the war; Ralph Nader, since we know the 2000 presidential election came down to a few hundred votes, and he siphoned off more than enough votes from Al Gore to allow Bush to win and take us to war, a war that never would have been fought if Gore had become president; and the endlessly reprehensible and extremely hypocritical Rush Limbaugh, who heavily influences, every day, millions of simple-minded Americans, a great number of whom are ring-around-the-collar types who actually believe that the interests of Limbaugh, who makes around $30 million a year, are coterminous with theirs. About Limbaugh, although he has an uncontrollable passion for dishing it out, spouting his venom on the Clintons (even, unbelievably, their daughter, Chelsea, whom Limbaugh referred to, when she was growing up in the White House, as “ugly”; and along with Socks, the White House cat, as “the White House dog”) and the Democratic Party every single day without
