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George Bush can be explained by his audience.He is a an actor , personal motives unimportant but whose purpose is to deliver increased power and wealth to a priviliged group..With the help of Karl Rove , a cowed media,billions of dollars for powerful and nuanced public relations campaign his handlers have pushed a previously apathetic,slightly irritated populace into rabid polarization.He is truly Chauncy Gardner("Being There" with Peter Sellers) and the American public the stooges.
Folks - its every one of us who has sought to make nice instead of jumping into a spirited discussion at the dinner table,shrugged glibly at hurtful media, and every one of us who has thought who am I ?.It is in our prefernce for big screen tv and sports instead of books and citizen action.He and his have worked that angle to make that appear the norm and anything else suspicious and unpatriotic.Real men kick butt for other real men..He has positioned those in power as victims!
For far too long Americans including myself have thought of democracy as voting every election.The 2001 election has made that view woefully laughable.
