WE ARE NOT LETTING THEM FORGET NOR ALLOW THEM TO BLAME OBAMA FOR THE MESS WE ARE IN AND ARE SLOWLY OVERCOMING.
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying the cross”
-Sinclair Lewis, author of “It Can’t Happen Here” 1935
I strongly recommend reading Joe Conason’s “It can happen here” because it might give you clearer ideas about how Bush went about trampling on the Constitution in his efforts to make the Presidency the most powerful of the three branches of government.
I think it is ironic that you see signs at those now repugnant Tea Bag Party demonstrations and you see people carrying signs that equate our President to Hitler or accuse him of espousing fascist ideologies.
I find it ironic because President Bush came closer than any other President to doing just that. The reasons for the general disenchantment with the Bush administration are well known; ranging from the misbegotten, horrifically mismanaged war in Iraq to the heartless bungling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster. In cases, the resentment and the damage done to the national interest and the loss of life and treasure has been exacerbated by evidence of evil ideology and bad faith complicated by the lying, the cronyism and the corruption.
Most people are aware, however unwilling they are to acknowledge it, that the Bush regime misled the American people and the rest of the world about the real purposes and the effects and costs of invading Iraq. They fabricated this scenario of threat to our nation; to hear them speak then it was almost a certainty that Sadam Hussein was ready to attack America and the mushroom cloud imagery was on everyone’s mind.
Yet what this amounted to was a partisan effort to exploit the fear of Americans of another hit and it led to wasting billions of dollars on Contractors with close connections to the White House (Halliburton) as well as the callousness and negligence of the Bush administration in the wake of the destruction of New Orleans by hurricane Katrina.
But war and natural disasters are beneficial to politicians who want to expand their power, enlarge their influence and solidify their control. America had the whole world on its side after the attack of 9/11 and Bush miraculously managed to turn all that good will and empathy into resentment and hate towards America in just a few short years. How did he do it? I guess his arrogance, his belligerent policies, his pre-emptied attack on a country that had done nothing to us and the declaration that he was anointed by God himself to conduct these actions and wanted to conduct a “crusade” against the Muslim world.
Americans have very short attention spans and they even suffer from collective amnesia. We have to remind them constantly what Bush did and why Republicans are responsible for the mess we are in today. We can’t let them forget nor allow them to blame President Obama for it.
History teaches us time and time again that authoritarian excesses are often accompanied by war or the fear of it. Going back to Lincoln’s suspension of habeas corpus during the Civil War then through the Red Scare of World War I, the shameful internment of Japanese Americans during World War II continuing on with the era of McCarthyism at the beginning of the cold war; there have been efforts by our Heads of Government to embark on excesses to make the Presidency the strongest of the three branches of government.
President Nixon so vehemently tried to strengthen his office at the expense of the other two branches of government that his Presidency was called “The Imperial Presidency”. His pales in comparison to that of George W. Bush that came wrapped in the flag and false patriotism while carrying a cross.
Arguably, Bush overstepped the boundaries and trampled on the Constitution, that very Constitution that Republicans claim to venerate and which now they are trying to change. The way I see it, Bush had over 35 legitimate impeachable offenses and that is something we can’t afford to let the American people forget.
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