"Patriotic"? That's the problem with Americans! We all think that because we blather on about patriotism, that give us a pass on civic duty.
We love they neighbor about as poorly as any people on earth. We'll pay taxes and support charities, as long as that money ensures we don't have touch homeless people, smell housing projects, or have colored folks in our neighborhoods.
I consider myself a patriot. I believe in America as an ideal -- freedom and opportunity fall into the "how can you oppose them" category.
But, people like Bush are tools of a machinery that has little or nothing to do with our national interests.
Bush and his father were both puppets of the darker aspect that the world is basically run by about 1000-2000 people. His father got hung out to dry in the '92 election (beatedn out by the efforts of a psycho, Perot, and a pervert, Clinton) because he spilled the beans on globalization, and went back on cutting taxes.
Now, Bush2 thinks he is going to stuff this right down our throats, wreck the economy, and tell us all it wasn't his fault?
Every Republican except Eisenhower has wrecked the economy!
Think...
Bush2 . . . major recession
Bush1 . . . minor recession
Reagan . . . major recession
Nixon . . . oil crisis
Ike . . . THE EXCEPTION, aided largely by the birth of the military-industrial complex in its present form
Hoover . . . global depression
You have to go back to Coolidge before a Republican presided over a purely successful economy that was not aided by war production.
And nobody really believes Coolidge was much of anything; he is almost exclusively noted as THE dumbest US President ever (however, I think this gives Lyndon Johnson too much credit).
The only good thing I will say for Bush is that at least when he speaks, we know we are getting it from the horses mouth -- the horse in this case being the corporation-nation state.
We can't stop here! This is bat country!
