Well... Yeee-Haw!
When did we collectively become a nation of Wal-Mart shopping, gun-toting, foreigner-fearing people? When did morality become the biggest voting issue?
Much of the rest of the world already either despises or chuckles at the United States... What kind of message does another Bush "victory" send to them?
To quote my friend, Amber, in an email this morning: "Aren't we supposed to be the champions of free thoughts, free will, inspired science and innovation, a place where equality and opportunities are available to all? Aren't we the people who care about one another and what happens to our communities? This country had the potential to teach and lead the world through example. Now we are ridiculed and looked down upon. The rest of the world will evolve, and we will be back in 1950, wearing skirts and vacuuming while our casseroles cook." I have to agree.
I am dumbstruck. I simply cannot believe that the United States is this full of Bush supporters.
There is a term in psychology called splitting. Bush does it all over the place, and has managed to con the whole country into a mass psychology (hysteria, really) of believing it. Iraq = bad. Church = good. American = good. Gay = bad. Etc., etc., etc. There is no room in any of his arguments for empathy for others or any understanding of different points of view or different circumstances of existence. He is splitting everything into for/against, good/bad, religious/evil, moral/immoral... with no allowance for anything that doesn't have a hard, fast label applied to it. He must put things in boxes. This behavior is a clear mark of a simple-minded, emotionally immature man. In the spirit of our newly re-elected president, I will put him in that box, myself.
The frightening part is that people believe in him. People look up to him. People are beginning to treat him as less of a leader and more of a savior. I shudder to think of the leaders of that past who had that "honor" bestowed upon them and the oppression that reigned in their wake.
It seems obvious Bush will only govern for those who agree with his boxes and shun the bad, immoral, baby-killer, faggot, brown people boxes, totally ignoring their say, their lives, and their circumstances.
I worry about our abilities as individuals to make any changes in a country so caught up in the morality of everything and, collectively, so totally unable to feel for another human being. This country has been run on fear since 9/11 and will continue to be afraid as long as we're getting messages of doom from Bush/Cheney.
The funny thing is, now Cheney's predictions might all come true. Now the world really will hate us and attack us and have no sympathy for the pathetic moral right... and the rest of us who will become innocent casualties of that war.
Much of the rest of the world already either despises or chuckles at the United States... What kind of message does another Bush "victory" send to them?
To quote my friend, Amber, in an email this morning: "Aren't we supposed to be the champions of free thoughts, free will, inspired science and innovation, a place where equality and opportunities are available to all? Aren't we the people who care about one another and what happens to our communities? This country had the potential to teach and lead the world through example. Now we are ridiculed and looked down upon. The rest of the world will evolve, and we will be back in 1950, wearing skirts and vacuuming while our casseroles cook." I have to agree.
I am dumbstruck. I simply cannot believe that the United States is this full of Bush supporters.
There is a term in psychology called splitting. Bush does it all over the place, and has managed to con the whole country into a mass psychology (hysteria, really) of believing it. Iraq = bad. Church = good. American = good. Gay = bad. Etc., etc., etc. There is no room in any of his arguments for empathy for others or any understanding of different points of view or different circumstances of existence. He is splitting everything into for/against, good/bad, religious/evil, moral/immoral... with no allowance for anything that doesn't have a hard, fast label applied to it. He must put things in boxes. This behavior is a clear mark of a simple-minded, emotionally immature man. In the spirit of our newly re-elected president, I will put him in that box, myself.
The frightening part is that people believe in him. People look up to him. People are beginning to treat him as less of a leader and more of a savior. I shudder to think of the leaders of that past who had that "honor" bestowed upon them and the oppression that reigned in their wake.
It seems obvious Bush will only govern for those who agree with his boxes and shun the bad, immoral, baby-killer, faggot, brown people boxes, totally ignoring their say, their lives, and their circumstances.
I worry about our abilities as individuals to make any changes in a country so caught up in the morality of everything and, collectively, so totally unable to feel for another human being. This country has been run on fear since 9/11 and will continue to be afraid as long as we're getting messages of doom from Bush/Cheney.
The funny thing is, now Cheney's predictions might all come true. Now the world really will hate us and attack us and have no sympathy for the pathetic moral right... and the rest of us who will become innocent casualties of that war.
posted by Bert at 1:07 PM
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