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Government of the Ignorant, By the Ignorant and For the Ignorant

 

 

 

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Government of the Ignorant, By the Ignorant and For the Ignorant

By DOUG THOMPSON

Jun 28, 2005, 01:46

 

 

Emily, who sends me emails when she gets upset over something I write

(which is often) didn't care much for Monday's column calling

President Bush and those who follow him idiots.

 

" You have to be the most arrogant, self-centered, smug, overbearing

bastard on the Internet, " she wrote.

 

Sorry Emily but you're wrong. My parents were married when I was born.

But four out of five ain't bad.

 

To paraphrase a favorite of right-wing extremists, the late Senator

Barry Goldwater of Arizona, arrogance in defense of liberty is no vice.

 

At least Emily signs her name. Most of the riff-raff that send

messages over the electronic transom of this web site hide behind

anonymous " handles " or use questionable names like " A True American. "

Probably best that they hide their identities, given the high number

of grammatical errors and misspellings that appear in most of the

missives. Guess the ability to string together words into a simple

declarative sentence wasn't taught at their school.

 

I'm not surprised when the unwashed masses get bent out of shape every

time I dare suggest that George W. Bush is not the saint they

genuflect to on a daily basis. Ignorance loves company and only the

truly ignorant can think Bush is anything more than proof that a

functioning brain is not a requirement to be President of the United

States.

 

But if you apply the laws of cause and effect, Bush is the perfect

idiot to lead a legion of idiots. A new poll released Monday shows a

majority of Americans now believe Bush knowingly lied to the American

people, Congress and the world to justify his illegal invasion of

Iraq. Even more believe he has mishandled the war. Yet a dysfunctional

minority continues to sing his praises and embrace the outdated notion

that America has the right to wage war on whomever it pleases whenever

it wants.

 

Had Bush not been a coward who sat out the Vietnam War in the

stateside safety of the Texas Air Guard he might have learned

something from our mistakes there. But Dubya is a cardboard cowboy, a

prehistoric throwback who's all swagger and no substance. He leads an

equally substance-starved party that feels the Constitution is

expendable if it gets in the way of an extremist right-wing agenda.

 

No wonder rational Americans are turning away from Bush and the GOP in

droves. Even some rational members of the party of the elephant have

begun to question the antics of their President and realize this fool

is leading them into a political abyss.

 

Democrats, of course, claim they knew this all along and say things

would be so much better if one of their own lived at 1600 Pennsylvania

Avenue and they controlled Congress.

 

That's a crock. Democrats, like Republicans, put the interests of

their party above that of the nation. The name of the game is power

and control and those who to the holy grail of politics

don't give a damn about the people they have sworn to serve.

 

John Kerry and most of his fellow Democrats in Congress voted to

support Bush's dirty little war in Iraq. They now claim they were

misled but – as elected officials – they should have demanded more

proof before giving someone like Bush a license to kill.

 

The spreading cancer that threatens to destroy this country cannot be

stopped by replacing one band of political crooks with another.

Partisans who blindly follow their leaders and party dogma are the

problem. They give us flawed leaders like George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

 

The answer lies not in replacing one scoundrel with another. The

system is flawed, corrupt and beyond redemption. It must be changed

and that change can come only from radical, revolutionary action,

 

Sadly, a nation divided by bitter, partisan debate cannot correct

itself. Until we learn to be Americans first and forget about the

pettiness of political philosophies we can not – and will not – change.

 

© Copyright 2005 by Capitol Hill Blue

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