The Dry Drunk
Flash In The Pan offers her comments on the President from the point of view of someone who has had deep personal experience with alcoholics and alcoholism. In my judgement her comments provide an invaluable perspective for Bush analysts.
In the following excerpt she describes a drunk she has known:
This particular person had, for as long as I had known him, had a reputation as the most fit person in the area. If he wasn’t skiing, he was climbing. If he wasn’t playing tennis, he was running, or hiking, or biking or something! Always in motion of some kind! And during the above-mentioned conversation, this trait of his came up in a joking kind of way. We were all laughing about how this guy never stopped and he was laughing right along with us, and then he said:
"Well, I have to do something. I’m an alcoholic who can’t obsess over drink! All that energy has to go somewhere, so I obsess about fitness."
This may be one of the truest statements I have ever heard about obsessive disorders. The fact is that if you can’t obsess about one thing, you will find something else to obsess about. And, no matter how healthy it might look on the outside, it’s still an obsession on the inside. It’s still unhealthy... for you and probably for those around you.
Let’s get back to Junior and his drinking for a moment. By his own admission Junior has subsumed his drinking into his devotion to his personal variant of God. And his God is a very obsessive God. He needs counseling. This God saved Junior from drink and is now out to save the world, Junior style. How do we know? Because Junior has said so, and his actions certainly bear that out. In fact, he’s going to save the world first (whether the world wants it or not) and then work on saving the US, every last pagan, lefty, pinko, free-thinking, liberal one of us and he’s going to do it by repealing every piece of social legislation since the New Deal or possibly the writing of the US Constitution. And all because Junior’s God is just as drunk as he is.
Seeing Junior’s actions on a national and global scale through the prism of his alcoholism is, for me very instructive. Very, very scary ... but very instructive.
Father Bo points to a similar analysis, published at Conspiracy Planet.
Many thanks to Flash and Father Bo
