Hard To Be Human

Nick raises a longstanding Right canard in a previous comment:

"The fact that so many on the Left take a twisted pride in hating George Bush pretty much illustrates the fact that hatred is very much an equal opportunity evil. Glasses houses and stones, kettles and pots... you know, all that stuff. "

This is a popular rejoinder from teh Right aisle whenever a Liberal has the temerity to suggest maybe the drop in civility has more to do with the political ploys pioneered by Newt Gingrich than the number of 'fucks' on a blog such as this one, which boasts the traffic of a cave in Nepal.

In short, Nick, the "Hate comes from both sides" is useless here until someone from the Right repudiates and excommunicates Newt, Limbaugh, Coulter, and Pat Robertson from our public discourse. In reality, the premiers of the Republican Party have been using 'Civility' to distort and disrupt any objections from their counterparts while using terms of disparagement and denigration to turn Democrats into Demons for the last twenty five years.

It is taken as a given that the opposition to Bush and the Cheney administration is due to 'Bush Derangement Syndrome' and personal antipathy. And Nick, oddly enough, raised it in response to a post that had little to do with Bush, except for the fact that he is the highest standing sadist to promote the policy; with a glee usually reserved for small boys with a magnifying glass and a thriving anthill.

In reality, the opposition to Bush started before the election of 2000, when people like Molly Ivins pointed out the wasteland his policies have left in Texas, and the prediction that repeating these on a Nationwide basis would be foolish. To which the press responded "But Gore sighs heavily!" and George Bush's obvious use of a wire in the debates goes undiscussed.

The implication is that hatred of Bush is unfounded, and based on personal, elitist dislike. But the talking points from the Right, obediently disseminated by teh Mighty Wurlitzer of Right Wing Media, continuously trumpet numbingly plebeian attacks on Democrats; attacks that have little to do with actual policy or politics or indeed, even reality. Attacks on Gore's clothing, clinton's 'drug dealing' Hillary's cleavage, Obama's flag pin and lack thereof, Edwards haircut....


So, do I hate George Bush? Yes. YES. strongly, unequivocally, and without reservation, even if it lands me in a covert prison.

I hate Bush for being the undeserving recipient of unprecedented privilege in an appalling ideologically driven Supreme Court case that invalidated proper procedure in a recount and stomped all over a State's sovereignty in awarding him the Presidency in 2000;

I hate George Bush because he squandered the worldwide goodwill after a tragedy;

I hate Bush because he then used the tragedy as an excuse to attempt fulfilling a misbegotten dream of worldwide domination by a small group of political idealogues- then promptly fumbled nearly every operational aspect of the occupation.

I hate Bush for the way he exulted in each and every execution he presided over.

I hate Bush because he lies.

I hate Bush because he has diluted and distorted the Constitution to benefit a single Political Party;

I hate Bush because he is incurious, unlearned, and ignorant, despite having the advantages of the best education his Family's influence could buy him;

I hate Bush because he says 'nuculer'.

I hate Bush because he is the most recklessly spending President in history, spending the country into unimaginable debt while rewarding plutocrats and war profiteers with government largesse and tax cuts.

I hate Bush because of his complicity in Cheney's development of a surveillance society;

I hate Bush because he has been a willing and eager accomplice in rolling back environmental and consumer protections to pre-1920 levels;

I hate Bush because his character is as much a creation as Andy Kaufman's. He is an effete, elitist, arrogant and unlikable son of privilege and heir to a real dynasty that for political reasons finds it expedient to pretend to be a rancher and adopt a fake Texas accent, talking slowly and spreading the meme that 'he'd be a good guy to have a beer with' when in reality he's a violent alcoholic.

I hate Bush because he willfully ignored an environmental disaster in New Orleans and has since obfuscated and derailed any meaningful reconstruction efforts on behalf of the Federal Government

I hate Bush because his lifetime habit of avoiding personal responsibility through the intercession of his family's political beneficiaries, from enabling his college career, to helping him avoid service during the Vietnam War, to failed business venture after failed business venture. Never before has such a repeated track record of failure led to the highest level of political office.

George W. Bush is worthy of hatred. Twisted pride? I don't know; I think a far more pertinent question is after all this, why MORE people don't hate him? And what took so long?

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