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<DIV><BR>Subj: [nowtexas] Fw: Fwd: Deepak Chopra on the Palin Effect<BR></DIV>
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Forwarded Message ----<BR>From: Geraldine Salazar
<gsalazar@prusantafe<WBR>.com><BR>To:
geraldinesalazar@<WBR>comcast.net<BR>Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008
9:37:08 PM<BR>Subject: Fwd: Deepak Chopra on the Palin Effect<BR><BR>
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<DIV>Hello Andrea, Gina, Dana, Diana, Diane, Esther, Elizabeth, Gina, Janet,
Katherine, Margo, Rebecca, Rosemary, Rita, Robert, Vera, Lucille, Victoria,
Valerie, Anita, Linda, Jane, Penny, Gilda, David, Leslie and
Diana,</DIV> </DIV>
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<DIV>I want to share what Rebecca sent me regarding Palin.<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Geraldine,</DIV>
<DIV>This is also interesting to read and a fresh perspective. </DIV>
<DIV>See you in October!</DIV>
<DIV>Rebecca <BR> </DIV>
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Deepak Chopra on the Palin Effect<BR><BR><FONT color=#000080><FONT
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face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><B>DEEPAK
CHOPRA<BR></B></SPAN></FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 14px"><FONT
face=Verdana><BR></FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><I>Obama and the Palin
Effect<BR></I></FONT><FONT face=Verdana><BR></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Posted September 4, 2008 | 01:41 PM
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face="Times New Roman">Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring
the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly
illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican
convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes former Vice
President Dan Quayle as an unlikely choice, given her negligent parochial
expertise in the complex affairs of governing. Her state of Alaska has less
than 700,000 residents, which reduces the job of governor to the scale of
running one-tenth of New York City. By comparison, Rudy Giuliani is a towering
international figure. Palin's pluck has been admired, and her forthrightness,
but her real appeal goes deeper.<BR><BR>She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in
essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their
worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche
that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with
qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness,
and suspicion of "the other." For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those
feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach
for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an
unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out
of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use
before his arrival on the scene.) I recognize that psychological analysis of
politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a
perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message. In her
acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to
celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision. <BR><BR>Look at what
she stands for:<BR>--Small town values -- a denial of America's global role, a
return to petty, small-minded parochialism.<BR>--Ignorance of world affairs --
a repudiation of the need to repair America's image abroad.<BR>--Family values
-- a code for walling out anybody who makes a claim for social justice. Such
strangers, being outside the family, don't need to be heeded.<BR>--Rigid
stands on guns and abortion -- a scornful repudiation that these issues can be
negotiated with those who disagree.<BR>--Patriotism -- the usual fallback in a
failed war.<BR>--"Reform" -- an italicized term, since in addition to cleaning
out corruption and excessive spending, one also throws out anyone who doesn't
fit your ideology.<BR><BR>Palin reinforces the overall message of the
reactionary right, which has been in play since 1980, that social justice is
liberal-radical, that minorities and immigrants, being different from "us"
pure American types, can be ignored, that progressivism takes too much effort
and globalism is a foreign threat. The radical right marches under the banners
of "I'm all right, Jack," and "Why change? Everything's OK as it is." The
irony, of course, is that Gov. Palin is a woman and a reactionary at the same
time. She can add mom to apple pie on her resume, while blithely reversing
forty years of feminist progress. The irony is superficial; there are millions
of women who stand on the side of conservatism, however obviously they are
voting against their own good. The Republicans have won multiple national
elections by raising shadow issues based on fear, rejection, hostility to
change, and narrow-mindedness.<BR><BR>Obama's call for higher ideals in
politics can't be seen in a vacuum. The shadow is real; it was bound to
respond. Not just conservatives possess a shadow -- we all do. So what comes
next is a contest between the two forces of progress and inertia. Will the
shadow win again, or has its furtive appeal become exhausted? No one can
predict. The best thing about Gov. Palin is that she brought this conflict to
light, which makes the upcoming debate honest. It would be a shame to elect
another Reagan, whose smiling persona was a stalking horse for the reactionary
forces that have brought us to the demoralized state we are in. We deserve to
see what we are getting, without disguise.</FONT><FONT face=Verdana>
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