In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
It’s your worst nightmare – It’s high school all over again.
In a post below I mention that the “adults are in charge” (sarcastically).
I hear that phrase a lot, basically its conservatives feeling good about the Administration because they are "adults." Unlike the Clinton Administration which consisted of... what? Toddlers?
Adults are not what we have right now. Right now we have a bunch of High Schoolers in charge. And they are taking our whole nation back to high school. A place where integrity and honesty is meaningless, but having the right friends, clothes (or oil fields), and money is all that matters.
And just like high school we have people who think, as they too are in high school, that they are now Adults, but instead what they are are immature, morally vague children in adult bodies.
We have bullies who believe winning is everything. They don't feel bad about the kid getting picked on because they never would associate with that kid anyway. Their worldview is limited to what their friends and parents told them.
We've got George W. whose dad is really important and rich... George is one of the "beautiful people."
We’ve got Karl Rove, who is so insecure he values himself by how much his friend George is valued. He is a ‘wannabe’ protected by the George clique.
We’ve got Rummy and Cheney, plain old-fashioned rich bullies.
And we’ve got Ashcroft who is that weird fundamentalist kid who is always trying to convert you.
And just like in high school every time they bully, lie, and ostracize someone it is motivated by fear and insecurity.
Bush needs his ratings high, and he’ll start a war to keep them high, not only because he wants to get re-elected. He wants all of that so his daddy will love him. George W. Bush deep down does not believe his daddy loves him. Pretty much like high school.
I've been told that one side effect of alcoholism is that is stops the ability to mature emotionally while you are addicted. Basically maturity comes from facing reality, drinking hides reality. From the mid to early sixties until the late eighties Bush accumulated very little wisdom on how to handle stress, disappointment, and reality. Bush drank until he was forty. When Bush won Super Tuesday in the primaries for the 2000 election, he was told by a reporter about how good McCain was for everyone as he brought so much interest into the election, and that he’d brought people to the polls. Bush’s reaction was, “but he didn’t win.” He had no interest in people being involved in the election, or excited about the election, or participating in democracy, no was interested only in winning, disbelieving there was any other point. Bush’s moral clarity is a sign of ignorance.
Bush was a drunk and a failure. He didn’t know what he wanted to do but wanted to prove himself to his Dad, he tried to get into law school, but no one would take him, so he tried to do what his dad did (get into the oil business). He failed. He failed a lot until Dad’s friends gave him a chunk of a baseball team. Then he became President. Then he defeated the guy who “tired to kill” his dad. Maybe now Dad will love him. (I'm not saying George the elder doesn't, I believe he does, but I'm also pretty sure the George the younger does not believe that).
George W. Bush is sad, like much of high school is. Yes, many of us enjoyed high school, I certainly enjoyed some of it, but that was because we were TEENAGERS. We’re in the real world now.
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