George W. Bush Gives Me Hope

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Like a friend of mine once said, "Look on the bright side...there has to be one out there somewhere."

:D


George W. Bush Gives Me Hope
The astonishing collapse of the Bumbling One surely means healthy change is imminent, right?
- By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, November 18, 2005


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Do you feel the hope? Not yet? Look closer: It's been over four years now that the GOP has had it all locked down tight, the stranglehold to end all strangleholds, owned Congress and stacked the courts and shut down the media and demonized all voices of dissent and ran the president the way a pimp runs a prostitution ring.

No light escaped. They had masterminded one of the most brutal and mean-spirited and thoroughly effective subjugations of the American idea in 100 years, and it looked as though their power and reach knew no limits. It was astounding: No matter what atrocity or torture or war or violent abuse of nature, they would simply gloat and the media would cower and the people would merely look on, beaten and glazed and tired, and accept it as dark manna.

But now something has shifted. The iron grip is slipping, sooner and more quickly than any of the right's political architects predicted, surely sooner than Rove had strategized, far sooner than the 20-year master plan the GOP had in place.

What happened? Simple: The horrible policies, the lies and the lies on top of the lies (if "we do not torture" doesn't beat "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" as the impeachable BS of the century, we are lost) became just too much. The center could not hold. The atrocities are now paying their moral dividends. The GOP is now reaping what it has sown. Which is another way of saying: The system works.

>>> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/11/18/notes111805.DTL&type=printable

[Cactus44]

1. I really, really want to agree, but

but the trust I had that the American system would always right itself no matter what took a big hit when shrub was re-selected.

I sure hope you're right, but I'm very worried that something important may be gone forever.

[Imagine My Surprise]

2. Do any DU historians know whether...

there has been a similar cycle in American history? Since history presumably repeats itself, has Bush had a historic counterpart and how many years was that cycle?

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3. good question! n/t

[peacebird]

5. I would think it would be the age of the robber-barons - the 1890's?

[FloridaPat]

4. The country is in financial ruins. 2100 soldiers dead in Iraq. 0ver

125,000 Iraqi citizens dead. And the system works?

Time for a new system

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6. I read the article...

like most of Morford's...with a healthy dose of cynical sarcasm.:sarcasm:

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7. This article reminds me of a post I wrote

about 4 years ago. This is when I was caught up in a whirlwind of anger, frustration, and murderous rage over what had happened to my country.

I couldn't understand how this had happened; to watch a democracy get destroyed right before your eyes.

I called it 'The Parasite's Handbook'. Rules for a parasite to live by.

Rule #1. Do not kill your host. As you lay within the intestine of your host, you must remember several things. If you take too much nourishment from it, or if you lay too many eggs which become offspring which multiply in the host's intestines, you will be in dire danger.

You will kill your host. And you will also die. So you must be prudent. Always remember that you are always secondary to your host. You must keep it alive while you yourself manage to live.

This is what the Bush administration seems to have missed. I suspect they will kill the host before they give up.