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This rings so true. I tuned in to NPR as soon as I heard about OKC, and there was someone talking about Islamic terrorists. I turned to my husband and we both shook our heads. The year before, we’d talked with someone at a historical site in Concord MA about how they had to be on high, high alert on April 19, threat of domestic terrorism.
Also, logistically, a federal building in OKC is the last place an overseas terror group would try to attack. It only made sense, symbolically and logistically, if it were right-wing militia folk.
Pretty sure there is little downside to thinking for yourself in any era…even more critical in the age of media carpet bombing…
I have frequently made the comment here that “The only poll that matters is the one taken on Election Day.” I think this is more true now than ever before. We are a fragmented nation with many competing ideas/interests. Trying to correctly discern the intent of voters, particularly amid our current circumstances, is not a winning play for polling firms.