03-02-2015, 05:39 PM
Tracy Riddle Wrote:One of the fascinating things about this novel is the main character, who is a naive, patriotic, brainwashed "good American," sincerely believing everything he has been taught about the "American way of life" being threatened by Communism and other foreign ideas. This obviously can lead people to justify all kinds of atrocities in their minds - making heroes of snipers and torturers, for example. Or dropping napalm or DU on civilians. Or assassinating Americans who threaten "American exceptionalism."
A Bush-voter in other words...