SEESHOLTZ: The Christian Right and G.W. Bush in Plato's Cave

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The Christian Right and G.W. Bush in Plato's Cave

June 6 2006
Counterbias.com
MEL SEESHOLTZ


In the Cave, shadows were mistaken for reality. Those “in power” had a vested interest in maintaining the illusion, just as they did in the 1999 film The Matrix, an updated rendering of Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave.” George W. Bush and the Christian Right – from the bowels of the Cave – are again arguing for the reality of those “threatening” shadows in order to preserve their own “vision.”

Beware the Gays! They’re out to destroy “marriage,” the “family,” and America! Tony Auth’s June 6, 2006 cartoon in the Philadelphia Inquirer was right on target.

Using a different metaphor, Mike Luckovich’s June 2, 2006 editorial cartoon in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution – “U.S. ship’s going down” – was a snapshot of reality. How appropriate Tom Minnery, vice president of public policy for James Dobson’s Focus on the Family, began his May 2006 call-to-discrimination...

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[LouisianaLiberal]

1. Good article

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2. Yes good read.