Bush’s America isn’t mine
Dave Winer is on a roll this morning:
Scripting News: Bush’s America
Yes, you want to have a person with morals with his finger on the button. And no, the Republicans we elected are not those people.
…the war is between Bush’s evildoers and the good folk, except his enemy lives in the minds of American cities, in educated people who care about and think about the future. His philosophy asks people to think with their emotions, to ignore what they see and believe what he wants us to believe. I wasn’t raised that way.
Me either. The tactic that Bush loves best is simply to repeat some lie or distortion of fact over and over and over again until it becomes a mantra that he hopes will replace the truth. The continued assertion that the war in Iraq had anything to do with Osama bin Ladan and al-Qaeda is one. Another is the insistence that we are winning Iraq despite mounting and irrefutable evidence to the contrary.
And yet again, Dave has it right when addressing the classic Bush tactic when all else has failed:
If I say you complain a lot, then I can do whatever I want, and if you complain, I just point my finger and laugh — See I was right! Everyone has a good laugh, and we ignore whether there was cause to complain. This kind of slop is creeping into discourse everywhere, the cultural influence of Bush Republicanism is going to live long after he is history.
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