Disease
Bush is a symptom of the "Republican Disease"
by W. Christopher Epler |
George Bush may be a smirking puppet, but we shouldn't forget that what really counts is the hand inside the puppet.
And that hand is who or what? That's easy; it's our Republican neighbors, in-laws, and colleagues! And the danger is that if we're not very clear about this, we'll keep treating the symptom and not the disease.
Which is just what the core Republicans want. What could be better than to have G. Duhbya for a front man? He annoys everyone (just like Bolton!) and thus becomes the quintessential lightening rod -- the appendix in the Republican gut.
Is this pure chance? Of course not. He focuses the outrage of the country (and world) away from this irrational and immoral army.
Leo Tolstoy warned the world not to glorify Napoleon by assuming one individual can dominate world events. He pointed out that if it hadn't been Napoleon it would have been someone else. Napoleon was a "symptom" (like George), not a cause. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time. The world was "ripe" for Napoleon.
Exactly the same thing is true for G. Duybya. Get serious, are we really supposed to believe that this pseudo Texan with a Daddy Degree from Yale and the conscience (and attention span) of a grasshopper is "dominating" world events?
No, no, no, he's merely the front man, a symptom of our country's values at their worst. "Republicans" have been with us since the beginning of recorded history, with their limitless greed, Pharisee hypocrisies, and righteous violence. Bush is simply the visible boil.
The problem with treating symptoms is that you never get at the causal disease. Band-Aids on cancer don't do much.
So what are we to conclude from this? We should realize that what's happening now in America has little or nothing to do with politics as usual and that it's profoundly to the advantage of Republicans to convince us that it does.
This is a conflict between good and evil. Evil is a tricky word, certainly, but what other shoe fits Bush's indifference to New Orleans and a presidency of nonstop, pathological lying?
Let's face it; America's pig rich are eating the rest of us alive. We're losing (or have lost!) our heath care, our retirements, our medical research, and our God given wilderness. The Republican energy bill is literally PAYING the corporate cronies of the Bush Family (don't forget Daddy!) to rape Mother Nature at will. How much money are you making off of $3.00 + gasoline? Iraq has turned out to be all about oil after all (paid for with our childrenÃs blood), and the extremist Evangelical supporters of Bush are busy replacing our sacred American Constitution with their sitcom version of the Bible.
And if all that doesn't add up to some kind of "evil", what does? We shouldn't forget that the only time Jesus "lost his cool" was when we whipped the money changers out of the temple. One wonders what he would do to Halliburton!
May we think about it like this? Imagine that your home is being attacked by a gang of scum bags and one of them, dressed like a clown, and is yelling obscenities at your family from the front yard. Not too hard to figure out who the clown is, is it? Talk about type casting!
Anyway, while you're being distracted by the clown, the vermin are pouring though the back door and goodbye home and family. This is a little like what happened to Odysseus when he came home from his travels to discover that his home and family had been invaded by sleazy, rapacious suitors of Penelope and his kingdom was being eating alive (sound familiar?).
What's interesting about this story is that when Odysseus started his ferocious cleanup of the "suitors", one of them asked him why he was so filled with fury. Remember his answer? His answer was, "Because you were trying to steal my world."
That's the definition of a Republican: someone who's trying to steal your world, your kingdom, your children and the very heart and soul of your life.
Is money your God? Do you think it's ok to sacrifice other people's children to fatten the coffers of companies like Halliburn? Do you think Mother Nature is an insignificant motel for the salvation/damnation antics of Evangelicals? Do you think the pitiful and terrified residents of New Orleans deserved their fate because they weren't members of a George Bush country club?
If your answer is no to any of the above, then you're not a Republican. So no illusions, please. G. W. Bush is merely the smirking tip of this loathsome and heartless iceberg.
by W. Christopher Epler |
George Bush may be a smirking puppet, but we shouldn't forget that what really counts is the hand inside the puppet.
And that hand is who or what? That's easy; it's our Republican neighbors, in-laws, and colleagues! And the danger is that if we're not very clear about this, we'll keep treating the symptom and not the disease.
Which is just what the core Republicans want. What could be better than to have G. Duhbya for a front man? He annoys everyone (just like Bolton!) and thus becomes the quintessential lightening rod -- the appendix in the Republican gut.
Is this pure chance? Of course not. He focuses the outrage of the country (and world) away from this irrational and immoral army.
Leo Tolstoy warned the world not to glorify Napoleon by assuming one individual can dominate world events. He pointed out that if it hadn't been Napoleon it would have been someone else. Napoleon was a "symptom" (like George), not a cause. He just happened to be in the right place at the right time. The world was "ripe" for Napoleon.
Exactly the same thing is true for G. Duybya. Get serious, are we really supposed to believe that this pseudo Texan with a Daddy Degree from Yale and the conscience (and attention span) of a grasshopper is "dominating" world events?
No, no, no, he's merely the front man, a symptom of our country's values at their worst. "Republicans" have been with us since the beginning of recorded history, with their limitless greed, Pharisee hypocrisies, and righteous violence. Bush is simply the visible boil.
The problem with treating symptoms is that you never get at the causal disease. Band-Aids on cancer don't do much.
So what are we to conclude from this? We should realize that what's happening now in America has little or nothing to do with politics as usual and that it's profoundly to the advantage of Republicans to convince us that it does.
This is a conflict between good and evil. Evil is a tricky word, certainly, but what other shoe fits Bush's indifference to New Orleans and a presidency of nonstop, pathological lying?
Let's face it; America's pig rich are eating the rest of us alive. We're losing (or have lost!) our heath care, our retirements, our medical research, and our God given wilderness. The Republican energy bill is literally PAYING the corporate cronies of the Bush Family (don't forget Daddy!) to rape Mother Nature at will. How much money are you making off of $3.00 + gasoline? Iraq has turned out to be all about oil after all (paid for with our childrenÃs blood), and the extremist Evangelical supporters of Bush are busy replacing our sacred American Constitution with their sitcom version of the Bible.
And if all that doesn't add up to some kind of "evil", what does? We shouldn't forget that the only time Jesus "lost his cool" was when we whipped the money changers out of the temple. One wonders what he would do to Halliburton!
May we think about it like this? Imagine that your home is being attacked by a gang of scum bags and one of them, dressed like a clown, and is yelling obscenities at your family from the front yard. Not too hard to figure out who the clown is, is it? Talk about type casting!
Anyway, while you're being distracted by the clown, the vermin are pouring though the back door and goodbye home and family. This is a little like what happened to Odysseus when he came home from his travels to discover that his home and family had been invaded by sleazy, rapacious suitors of Penelope and his kingdom was being eating alive (sound familiar?).
What's interesting about this story is that when Odysseus started his ferocious cleanup of the "suitors", one of them asked him why he was so filled with fury. Remember his answer? His answer was, "Because you were trying to steal my world."
That's the definition of a Republican: someone who's trying to steal your world, your kingdom, your children and the very heart and soul of your life.
Is money your God? Do you think it's ok to sacrifice other people's children to fatten the coffers of companies like Halliburn? Do you think Mother Nature is an insignificant motel for the salvation/damnation antics of Evangelicals? Do you think the pitiful and terrified residents of New Orleans deserved their fate because they weren't members of a George Bush country club?
If your answer is no to any of the above, then you're not a Republican. So no illusions, please. G. W. Bush is merely the smirking tip of this loathsome and heartless iceberg.
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