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Why is everything Bush's fault Jerry?
Here's a good piece from the WSJ describing you to a T!
Many of my friends ask me why I criticize President Bush, when they feel he
is trying very hard to protect America and stand up for the American
people," writes one Patricia Bruch of Amherst, N.Y., in the Buffalo News:
It makes me nervous that the president ignores Congress so often.
Everything makes me nervous lately. I dread turning on the news or reading
the paper. I certainly don't feel safer because of his war on terror.
I guess my mother says it best. Whenever the president comes on TV, she
sighs and says, "I just wish he wasn't there."
Me, too. My friends may think he loves America, and he probably does,
but I will continue to criticize him because my life under Bush has become
very stressful, to say the least.
This is not an angry piece; the tone is quite civil, and Bruch actually
offers some specific criticisms of the Bush administration that are at least
plausible. It sounds as though one could have a reasonable, adult
conversation about politics with her.
And yet. The piece does capture, in a milder form, something of the
psychology of the Angry Left. Bruch doesn't seem to hate the president, but
her distaste for him is, in her description, something of an unhealthy
obsession: "Everything makes me feel nervous lately."
We witnessed a far more severe case the other day. An old lady was standing
at a bus stop, wearing a button that said YES, I REALLY DO HATE GEORGE W.
BUSH. Another old lady walked up to her and said, "Right on!" The first old
lady replied, "Well, at least I still have the right to wear this button."
The tone in which she said this suggested not that she recognized her good
fortune at living in a free country, even if she doesn't care for its
current leadership, but that she fears that her freedom to wear obnoxious
buttons is in danger. This is a totally irrational fear.
Whatever the merits of the underlying political viewpoints, people who feel
nervous about politics all the time or who are consumed with hate are
suffering from a certain lack of perspective. There is no reason to think
that those on the political left are inherently more prone to this sort of
problem. Richard Hofstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" was,
after all, largely an essay about the American right circa 1964. As we
suggested Tuesday, this seems to be one of the hazards of being out of power
politically.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 9:31 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Verizon, WTF
Michael, welcome to the world of the new republic.
In Bush and his supporters' dreams, citizens have no rights,
businesses have all the rights, and the courts will be stacked so that
any case will be decided for business over government over people (if
indeed the law even gives you the right to sue anymore. congress is
passing more and more laws to make businesses and the government
immune to any lawsuit whatsever.)
Not that the top Democrats are much better, but at the moment anything
is better than the "business is always right" mantra of the current
administration.
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