Traska,
I think you misaddressed your last post. I never said a word about Jeb Bush except that I don't consider his chances for reelection to be very good.
That said, I absosolutely respect what you say about the country slipping into the toilet. I even agree with part of it.
But when you look to George W. Bush as your agent of change, I suffer a massive disconnect.
Now, I'm sure that George W. is personally a fine and decent man. But he is the very epitomy of the slide that worries me most -- the slide into plutocracy. A two-tiered society where the money is concentrated and those who have it make sure that their sons inherit it. The system where you worry less about someone breaking the law than his owning the legislators.
And George W., this scion of priviledge, who got a cushy spot in the Texas national guard instead of going to Vietnam, who was brought into businesses by Daddy's friends instead of working his way up, who was bailed out when they failed, who was able to buy a partnership in the Texas Rangers for only $70,000 of his own money, who has gotten second and third chances all his life, even for youthful choices that might have landed a poor man's son in jail, is just not someone I look to fix any of this. He is part of the problem. |
