His win was far from a lock, and I feel like it would have been so easy to bomb a building and then have someone claim there was residue of whatever. By late 2004 the war was not popular, for a lot of libs "finding" WMDs would have probably justified the most evil thing the US had done in decades, I'm sure.
I was so sure they would serve up an October surprise. When they didn't it really shook me, like I didn't understand politics at all. Maybe I still don't.
Thoughts?
You know how the matrix said 1999 was the peak of liberal civilization? It was right. You might be too young to remember but I got in a real fight about not respecting the president enough for questioning the war. There were still adults in their prime that never touched a computer. In a real way that was another era that was old and dying but people couldn't understand it at the time. That was what the gen X nihilism was about. The didn't have the internet to teach them about marxism.
We weren't as socially developed then as we were now. It is wild how fast things have changed.
I don't necessarily disagree, just not really sure how to connect that with my question?
We didn't know we could ask for more evidence. In a way that seems alien to think about now it seemed impossible we could be lied to on that scale.
It was such a big lie that it seemed unbelievable to ... just about everybody (but not actually everybody) that it would be so openly attempted.
Reminds me of Blair/Campbell and co