What does it say about this country if a person like GWB can get this far?

[bobweaver]

[BlueEyedSon]

1. What a country! Even a C student can get to be president!

Talk about "land of opportunity"....

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. Nothing good that's for sure.

[JanMichael]

3. Nothing good. Nothing at all. It's a condemnaton of the nation.

So fucking be it.

[Warpy]

4. It says that the rich have taken over completely

and no longer care about the country at all. The citizens are now superfluous. They no longer need us to labor to produce goods and services. They no longer need us to vote. This country's wealthy now comprise an inherited aristocracy, with enormous estates being passed intact now that inheritance taxes have been abolished. I would imagine primogeniture is not far behind.

THAT is what Bush's stupid tax cuts were all about.

[QC]

9. Excellent post! n/t

[stepnw1f]

5. Fall of a Nation

Just as Rome has Fallen, we are beginning to see the fall, with no end in sight.

[M155Y_A1CH]

6. Too much TV

Most of us seem to have a very tenuous grasp of reality.
We live in a fantasy world that has been created for us.

[Eric J in MN]

7. We're not the only country in which rotten men have taken

leadership positions.

You can say about Europe and Central America and South America that rotten men have been heads-of-state.

If anyone thought that we're so special that only other countries can have rotten men running things, that person was mistaken.

Bush's Social Security plan is similar to the one which ruined Argentina's economy.

If a rotten man can use a bogus Social Sec. scheme to ruin Argentina's economy, why not here?

[chicagojoe]

8. What kind of way is this to support the troops???

Y'all be careful, or the terrists might get nucular!!!!

[AlinPA]

10. It says we have a lot of stupid people in this country and they are

proud to be 'murcans.

[NC_Nurse]

11. Dumbed down populace.

Like George Carlin says:

People complain about politicians, but they are products of our system, our towns, ours schools, etc. Garbage in = Garbage out. This is the best we can do folks!"

I hate to say it, but I think he's right. People are too busy watching reality TV, shopping for the latest shit they don't need, and talking about the latest sensationalist BS on the news (Scott Peterson, Jen and Brad, blah....blah...blah...).

Yuch.

[atommom]

18. Too true, and if we let the RW have its way with public education,

things will get a whole lot worse!

[yinkaafrica]

12. The rise of the new KKK

They have taken control

[Stirk]

13. Bush is a caricature of our country's biggest problems.

Plutocracy. He had poor grades... yet he got into the most prestigious schools. Found a place on the boards of his father's friends' companies. Always room for family- even if they're alcholic and drug abusers. Were it not for his last name, he'd be selling shoes right now.

TV Culture. Bush's campaigns were the final triumph of image over substance. He said little in either campaign, apart from babbling self-contradictions, but it didn't matter.

Anti-Intellectualism. Many people preferred Bush because of his obvious lack of intelligence. They didn't trust his "smarty-pants" opponents.

That's not even touching his Cabinet, which demonstrates all the worst things about the current corporate domination of media and politics.

[burythehatchet]

14. People geneticlly need a King

only when thought prevails does the need for a moral guide diminish. Our population is a product of the intentional desire of some to stupidify people. Half the country wants a King.

[havocmom]

15. It's a values thing

We value the wrong stuff as a nation

[StephanieMarie]

16. That half our citizens have an IQ below average,

and that they enjoy being mislead in the name of freedom and values.

[murray hill farm]

19. one of the arguments against democracy

wonder if anyone has ever done a study of voting according to IQ..ha! And complacency..and lazy lack of interest in what is happening...none of the things it says are good, that is for sure.

[brindis_desala]

17. Moral vanity: *; God's simple answer to complex questions

[msgadget]

20. That the average citizen only pays attention when it starts to hurt them

personally. Until then they vote for the one who appeals to their sensibilities without considering ALL of the consequences.

[soleft]

21. That's how powerful the fear of death is

And how easily the cunning and powerful can use it to manipulate a population.