George W. Bush, This Is Your Life

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/9314

George W. Bush, This Is Your Life
by Timothy Gatto | Aug 13 2007


Congratulations to you President Bush, you may not realize this, but you and Vice President “Rabid Dog” Cheney have turned your citizens against their own country. Most Americans I come in contact with through my writing now believe that the United States is a predatory nation that kills human beings indiscriminately and takes whatever it wants, when it wants it. Don’t believe me? Just look at some of my writing in the last few weeks. There are people that feel that this nation is too far over the brink to ever be brought back to a decent republic. They feel shame over everything that has happened, not only on your watch, even though that started it, but now they have looked at the nation with a critical eye and they really don’t believe that this nation has ever stood for anything worthwhile.

I know that it isn’t true. The United States has done some noble things in its history. What you are seeing Bush baby, is something called malaise. Just so you know what I’m talking about I’ll give you the definition, I know you aren’t that smart:

Main Entry: mal·aise
Function: noun
1 : an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness
2 : a vague sense of mental or moral ill-being, a malaise of cynicism and despair.

Why do they have this condition? I don’t think that you have very far to go to see what has caused it. Look in the mirror. Call Cheney and Rice and Gates in and listen to their world-view as if you weren’t the President, but a spectator from middle America. Put yourself in the place of someone that has a hard time meeting their rent or mortgage payment, or an old lady that lost her life savings to the Enron Scandal, or to a young woman that lost her husband to an IED, or maybe someone that thought that they could get this country on the right track but now sees that it’s a Herculean task because all the cards are stacked in the governments favor. Oh that’s another word you will probably have a hard time with, its called “empathy” of which you have none.

You won’t see this malaise in the eyes of the people YOU meet. They are too busy slapping each other on the back and telling each other what a great job they have done. Most of them are making money hand over fist and don’t have a care in the world. You surround yourself with these people. They don’t see what they have done to the spirit of the people in this once-proud nation. They are in “denial”. Remember when you were drinking and snorting coke and chasing Mexican girls in Texas, and your parents told you that you had a problem? You didn’t believe them? That’s what denial is. Once you have it, you can’t see clearly at all. It’s a system of beliefs that doesn’t allow you to see reality. Just as well, if you saw, I mean really saw what you have done to this country, you’d put a bullet in your mouth like Hitler did. Yeah, you’re that bad.

The trouble with all of this, is after most people get over they’re malaise, they get angry. A lot like I am. Once they really get angry, there isn’t much you can do after that. The thing is, after they shake the feelings off, they really don’t care what happens as long as they don’t have to go back to feeling the way they did before. Some of them will die before they get that hopeless feeling again. I know, that’s where I’m at. It only takes one spark to set them off. Take someone away from their family for writing against the things America is doing. Start your war against Iran that we know you are planning. Let the rest of your cronies put everyone on part-time so that they don’t have to pay their workers benefits and watch this nation come to a boil. Howard Zinn is wrong. If you are going by what he writes, you must feel pretty comfortable. He’s practically given up on the human race. You have to deal with people like me. I’ve told your Generals to go to hell and I’m still here. There are others like me around too. People that haven’t given up on this country, people that still believe that this country is “of the people and for the people”.

So while you are sitting back enjoying this “good life”, remember that there are many in this country that don’t wish you well. There are many in this country that at this point are ashamed to be Americans. That’s sad, That’s where you have brought us, to this place of hopelessness. Just remember this, after depression, anger. I hope you are ready for it.

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[Sadie4629]

1. I don't think he should have used the term 'malaise'

It is permanently and inextricably linked to the Carter Administration.

[babylonsister]

4. I never associated that word with the Carter admin.

:shrug:

[Sadie4629]

5. Carter himself used the term

And was roundly ridiculed for it. It became fodder for all the comedians. The comedians loved Jimmy Carter. Hemorrhoids, swimmming attack bunnies, malaise . . .

I admired Carter as a man of principle, and probably one of the most intelligent to ever hold the office. But he was not media-savvy, and that hurt him more than anything else.

[Uncle Joe]

6. This is precisely why I believe we should hang the word

around the corporate media's neck instead of Carter. Jimmy Carter was leveling with the American People and the corporate media punished him for his candor. This same corporate media would go on to hail Reagen as the great communicator, and cover for his approaching senility. Reagen of course would return the favor by eliminating the Fairness Doctrine, empowering the likes of Rush Limbaugh.

I believe, too many times in our past we've allowed the corrupt to define the good, another example of this capitulation to definition is allowing the "liberal media" myth to flourish without a vigorous refutation and this eventually led us to those leaders with "honor and integrity" such as the current one occupying the White House.

[lazer47]

2. K&R, that is a good post

[indepat]

3. Too far over the brink? I've proffered the system is too broken to be fixed: corruption and venalit...

just run too deep. But Americans should not feel shame over everything that has happened since WWII, for example, for all, we have staunchly curtailed the spread of the evil, godless communism no matter where, no matter the cost in treasury of lives. Sadly we have had a hand in the deaths of millions of people on their own soil at an untold cost in treasury and more than 100,000 American lives and we have been responsible for the overthrow of a plethora of governments whose politics leaned a little or lot left of center. Take pride Americans, for this is how the world's history books will likely view the post-WWII America. Moreover, an unbelievable number of Americans still support the invasion and occupation of Iraq even now when it is evident to sll the major oil companies are positioned to reap trillions of dollars from Iraqi oil. God bless America and damn all those who have subverted our Constitution and founding principles or support the same.

[reprobate]

7. Yes, plenty of pissed off Americans. With Guns. Wonder what will provide the spark

that will set it off.

Some of us have been predicting a Second American Revolution for the last six or seven years.

Back in the day just after the Extreme Court anointing of Decider, the Commander Guy I had a feeling or vision of the future of our nation. It involved a long period of discomfort, followed by a short and violent time. Afterwards, there was a bright new dawn. But not just for America, it was for the planet.

Now I think what I saw then was the rule of George the Lesser, followed by ARII.

I'm more and more now having the feeling that the new 'dawn' I saw was a change in the socio-economic system perverting the world. The American Capitalist system has warped the country and the world into a two class social system. Just look ar the distribution of wealth in the nation: the top one tenth of one percent own as much wealth as the bottom fifty percent. Now THAT'S a two class system if there ever was one. It's also easily seen how the system has spread around the planet with globalization. Just look at how the profiteering by a few Wall Street criminals involved in the subprime ponzi scheme has effected the economies in other countries.

Large socio-economic changes happen when the masses wake to the realization that their labor in the factories of the Ownershiip class has been for naught. If one considers all that weighs down the workers in this country, like the disappearance of health care provided by employers, pension funds being sucked out of retirements, the unfair and uneven tax burdens, and especially the huge number of mortgage foreclosures, it seems to me that we can not be far from that tipping point now. And America is the leader of the world - as our political leaders want us to believe - so I think that the unrest that starts here will be exported just as the system has been; the changes, I think, will be global. How fitting that economic globalization may result in global socio-economic change.

The problem that this will bring is that past revolutions have usually resulted in change for the better for those that take over the revolution, and that has usually been strongarm men like Stalin, Mussellini, etc. Even in THIS country our revolution was to favor the wealthy. For example, our Constitution gave the vote only to landowners and it took amendments and years of struggle to even that out.

So it's apparent to me that the real problem will not be the revolution, but how the revolution ends. If handled right, we could see a world of Star Trek, where everyone works at what gives them the greatest joy, and money is not a consideration. You might say a sheckleless society. If handled wrong we could be in for a global Fourth Reich.

Well enough propheteering. My crystal ball is getting foggy.

I'd like to hear other views on the subject.

[Hydra]

8. Here's to the tipping point, if it ever comes

:toast:

As long as we have a revolution, I think things will turn out fine. Robespierre managed to mangle the message, but he got his eventually.

I think someone strong will have to come into power and strongarm the less well behaved among us to that table and hammer out an agreement that we all rise and fall together.

When the "royal" bug gets flushed, expect a great number of changes to come with that.

If only we could get to that point...

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. K & R