lurqer,
Re: The Seven Factors for failure --
With the possible exception of "the subjugation of women", each and every one of these warning signs applies to the Bush Family.
I say possible, because Laura Bush is no Hillary Clinton, and the general ideology of the crackpot evangelism espoused by Bush (a la Graham, Falwell and Robertson) is decidedly anti-woman in its essence.
1) Restrictions on the free flow of information.
In spades with Bush, hiding the truth about energy meetings, 9/11, Iraq war rationale and much more.
2) The subjugation of women.
See above.
3) Inability to accept responsibility for individual or collective failure.
Massive deficits have been, ahem, "unpredicatable". Planes being used as missiles have been, ahem, "unpredicable". The reaction of the Iraqi people to oppression, subjugation and occupation has been, you guess it, "unpredictable".
4) The extended family or clan as the basic unit of social organization.
The Bush Family is profiting handsomely from a) war profiteering by Poppy at the Carlyle Group, b) brother Neil is making a killing educational testing software, c) Jeb is making a killing in Florida business entanglements and the list goes on.....
5) Domination by a restrictive religion.
Low-brow evangelical fundamentalism dominates large sectors of the Executive Branch. Unseen before in U.S. history. It's as if we made a leap from the Enlightenment of the 18th Century into the superstitious incomprehension of the 13th Century.
6) A low valuation of education.
"Leave No Child Behind" schemes are being shown to largely have the effect of winnowing students out of schools and eliminating all but the elite from our schools, reversing 300 years of progress in our educational system.
7) Low prestige assigned to work.
Homeland Security prove to be hugely oxymoronic for 170,000 civil service employees who are forced to give up union membership and revert to a corrupt and previously besmirched system of patronage not seen in such inglorious feather since the 19th Century.
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I have a hard time deciding which century George Bush feels most comfortable in. The 13th? The 19th? Clearly, he's not fit for the 21st Century. Not with all the primitivism, tribalism and wretched family enhancement schemes that his ilk continually hatch at expense of the other 99.99% of the rest of us. |
