Bush Administration-Related Fatigue Syndrome
I haven't been blogging lately because I suffer from Bush Administration-Related Fatigue Syndrome (BARFS).
Symptoms of BARFS include despair, hopelessness and embarrassment to be a citizen of the United States of America.
A year after Americans "re"-elected George W. Bush, the average of his approval ratings in 17 nationwide polls taken during the past month (from Oct. 5, 2005 to Nov. 2, 2005) is only 39.3 percent.
And, unless he is impeached and removed from office, we're stuck with this piece of shit for more than the next three years.
Let's face it: Americans are fucking stupid.
To be surrounded by idiots is discomforting, to say the least. One of my co-workers is moving to Canada soon. It's not just talk; he's actually doing it. When I told him, "Take me with you," I was only half-kidding.
A fish rots from the head down. The members of the Bush regime have been interested only in their self-interests. They view the U.S. government as a vehicle with which to get for themselves and their buddies even more money and power, not as a vehicle to improve every American's life. They're not at all interested in raising all boats; they're interested only in getting for themselves and their buds bigger and better yachts, and they want to take away from us commoners even our life preservers (such as Social Security).
The American people, most of them being sheeple, have followed our "leaders" in Washington. All that most Americans care about is stuff, and their main concern is to look out for No. 1 -- fuck everybody else. (Perhaps this is most graphically evident in the way in which Americans drive.) Christianity isn't our national religion; consumerism and individualism are our national religion. We worship the golden calf. And ourselves.
Yes, the members of the Bush regime have set a selfish, materialistic, fearful, paranoid and bellicose tone in the the United States of America, but I can't let Americans off the hook. Through our action or inaction, we Americans are collectively responsible for the quality of and the actions of of our leaders. (Whether or not we will accept that reality, those scattered around the globe who want revenge upon the United States of America for its crimes against the rest of the world for U.S. corporations' profits and for Americans' material comforts certainly see it that way.)
When the members of the Bush regime demonstrated in late 2000 that they didn't give a fuck whether or not they had won the 2000 presidential election fairly and squarely, that should have set Americans' warning buzzers off like mad.
But Americans were too sedated from their Clinton-era prosperity to lift a fucking collective finger. Gee, what harm could a bunch of corrupt and ruthless election-stealers possibly do? was the collective "wisdom" at that time. Oh, yeah, all that has come to pass since then was just unfuckingforeseeable. How could we good, freedom-and-democracy-lovin' Americans possibly have known?
Now, a clear majority of Americans are against the Bush regime, but, sadly and pathetically, that's not because they've had some Great Spiritual Awakening. They oppose the Bush regime now for purely selfish reasons, such as that gasoline prices are so high.
I remember as though it were yesterday how a majority of Americans in March 2003 thought that the "shock and awe" of the Bush regime's illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialist invasion of Iraq really rocked. It was just like a video game or a Hollywood war movie, American forces bombing the shit out of Baghdad, even though Iraq not only had done nothing to us, but did not even have the capability to do anything to us. Iraq had had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11, and the United States militarily taking on Iraq was about as fair as an NFL team taking on a junior-high-school flag-football team, but hey, we wanted to show the world that We're still No. 1! after those twin towers fell in September 2001.
But those ungrateful sand monkeys in Iraq haven't been as receptive to American-style "freedom" and "democracy" as they were supposed to have been. (A comedian once joked that if you just put enough fast-food joints and shopping malls in Iraq, pretty soon the Iraqis will be just as listless and complacent and apathetic as Americans are, and that's how we can quell the "insurgency" in Iraq.)
A majority of Americans opposes the Vietraq War now not because we have permanently "liberated" -- killed -- at least 25,000 Iraqi civilians, but because Americans have the attention span of a gnat on crack and the Vietraq War has just dragged on too fucking long for Americans' attention span, longer even than "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy, and because Hurricane Katrina demonstrated that Gee, billions and billions of our tax dollars being funneled to Dick Cheney's Halliburton and other oily war-profiteering subsidiaries of BushCheneyCorp via the Vietraq War really has harmed us here at home! Americans still don't give a shit about the number of innocents abroad that are being slaughtered in their name for such supposed noble causes as "freedom" and "democracy." Only when their comfortable lives are made slightly less comfortable, such as with higher gas prices, do Americans give a shit.
And don't even get me started on the Democratic Party, which, as Ted Rall likes to say, routinely "snatches defeat from the jaws of victory."
Never have the Bush II Repugnicans been so vulnerable, but the Democrats have failed miserably to take advantage of this situation, as this cartoon illustrates:
Yes, I'm glad that the Democrats, more than two and a half years into it, are finally making public statements about the Bush regime's illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialist war on Iraq -- even though the Dems have spoken up only after public opinion was overwhelmingly on their side, and even though every American with two brain cells to rub together should have realized during the Bush regime's lead-up to its March 2003 launch of the Vietraq War that the Bush regime was hell-bent on invading Iraq no matter fucking what, so of course any and all "evidence" that the Bush regime was going to present to make its "case" for invading Iraq -- such as the non-existent uranium that Iraq sought from Niger -- was highly suspect at best.
Americans cannot claim that they didn't know, because we all fucking knew. While only a handful of us Americans -- including this blogger -- publicly opposed the Bush regime's March 2003 invasion of Iraq before it even began, most Americans didn't give a shit whether or not their nation dropped bombs on another relatively defenseless nation that had done nothing to us whatsoever -- because the price of gasoline was acceptable to them back then.
Just as the United States of America has yet to fully face up to what the stupid white men in charge did to the indigenous peoples of the continent and to black slaves (and to the Vietnamese people during the pointless Vietnam War, et. al., et. al.), the United States of America probably will never fully face up to the war crimes and the crimes against humanity that the stupid white men in charge have committed against the innocent people of Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.
If you just ignore your sins, then you never sinned -- right? God Bless America, The Most Righteous Nation on Earth.
Sickeningly, the Democratic Party, which never seriously opposed the Bush regime's illegal, immoral, unprovoked and imperialist invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq, will act as innocent as will the typical American, claiming "We didn't know!" that the members of the Bush regime lied us into the Vietraq War when of course they fucking knew. And a good number of self-identified Democrats will join the Repugnicans in trying to sweep the Vietraq War underneath the dirty red-white-and-blue rug of U.S. history, where the ghosts of Native Americans and black slaves and Vietnamese civilians and many, many others also reside.
And how will the Democrats take back the U.S. House of Representatives in 2006?
Not through strong, courageous, principled leadership, that's for sure. This cartoon sums up the Dems' apparent strategy for 2006:
So all of this is why I have BARFS, and why the Democratic Party sure the fuck isn't the cure for BARFS.
As the next three-plus years look like they're going to be only more of the same, I'm not sure what I'm going to blog about as America continues its steady spiritual decline, a decline that looks like it's going to end with a fall-of-Rome-like whimper or a big nuclear bang.
But I'm sure that I'll think of something.
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