However, Bush lost the 2000 election and took office anyway, and he probably
lost reelection in 2004 but ended up getting a second term. His approval
collapsed at least three times and always got it back up until the fall of
2006. In the end, he not only sold, started, waged, and defended the most
indefensible kind of war, but cajoled the so-called opposition into
supporting it.
Bush was remarkably cunning and very clever about getting and retaining
power. He was certainly no more a sign of decay than his entire class...
ML
Which leads to an interesting question about whether the war was "in the
interests of the ruling class". These are not simple questions. Was
Hitler's mad plunge into the USSR in the interests of the German ruling
class? To a certain extent, you will always have a disjunction between the
state and the class it rules on behalf of, despite Lenin's dictum about the
state as executive committee of the ruling class.
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