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In recent days, Scot SW, an outstandingly clever chip off the old bloc, of which we are all proud (*ahem*), has been attacking the Bush government.
I wish to associate myself with that concept.
If it has been a secret to any of our readers that the Arboretum is steadfastly anti-Bush, you've not been reading very carefully.
Scot makes the case against Bush and his boys because of the War in Iraq, and because he agrees with Senator Dodd that we have not behaved like "the good guys" with respect to the rights and well-being of other people on this earth.
Much more categorically, I detest this man in the White House, because I believe these things about Bush, and then some!
1. I believe he is recklessly and almost deliberately destructive of the Natural Environment. He seems to have no resepct for science or Mother Earth. I believe this is a result of his lack of faith in a good God. He thinks we're living in "End Times" and God will destroy it all any day, anyhow.
2. I believe he is autocratic by nature ("offensively self-assured or given to exercising unwarranted power; tending to be dictatorial") a man of limited intelligence, a man of corrupt motives, and given enough support by voters/press a man who would destroy our democracy. In fact, I believe he has already made it bleed dangerously.
3. I believe he (with his supporters) have already destroyed the Republican Party as it once was and has turned it into a for-sale-to-high-bidders, disastrously reactionary, arrogant, theistic cabal ("government by those who believe themselves divinely guided.")
4. I believe he is a liar, a deceiver, and a dissembler.
He is an awful lot like Lyndon Johnson, though not as smart and not as above-board. (I use "awful" in both its modern senses.)
Scot is calling for everyone to get out to vote on Nov. 7 and to vote Democratic. I couldn't disagree that this is probably the best strategy, but personally, I place very little confidence in either of our present political parties to "raise a standard around which good people may rally," to paraphrase George Washington. But, I do believe in time, we will return to good democratic government. Let's all work for that.
(Bud Woods)
3 comments:
I'm completely fed up with every Democrat and Republican in every race I am currently following. The positions of either side boggle the mind more or less equally. On both sides, the policy declarations are immensely complicated, undoubtedly showing the handiwork of numerous special interests.
The best we can hope for is a divided government that virtually shuts itself down with partisan gridlock. Bi-partisan compromises are usually completely toxic. To do nothing is preferable to staying on the current path.
Thanks Jim. It seems to me that what we need to do is support those organizations which represent our interests. A friend who was "in the know" gave me that advice years ago. So, we belong, for example, to the Natural Resources Defense Council and The Nature Conservancy, among others.
Bud
Global warming is certainly the "Biggie" that threatens life as we know it, but the immediate problem is ending this mess in Iraq.
The Democrats seem to have no proactive solutions other than to wait for the Republicans to destroy themselves from within. Again, we are faced with voting "against" something -- the Bush war profiteers rather than "for" something.
"We broke it -- we bought it" so a quick pull - out isn't an option.
Saddam was a butt-head but apparantly was a great stabilizing force in that region which we haven't been able to simulate.
Where is the Democratic plan to end this fiasco ????
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