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Politics : The Castle
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To: Lane3 who wrote (4085)11/15/2004 10:02:02 AM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 7936
 
I just think that most people are either too sensible or too busy or too scattered to get caught up in any malevolent plan.


I agree. Most people are not going to get caught up in any kind of planning - good or bad.

However, it only takes a relatively few to hi-jack our country. I am not putting George W. Bush in that category. He, like a lot of other immediate gratification types, do not think deeply enough about anything. The same could be said about Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan was not a super intellectual. He was, however, from all indications a very kind hearted person. People like George Will and perhaps twfowler jumped on his bandwagon and tried to use Reagan's trickle down theory to advance their own notions of what our society should look like.

However, there is a snowball effect and there are unintended consequences. There are malevolent types (and make no mistakes about it, they are malevolent - as there are malevolent types anywhere in the world) trying to steer this snowball. There is no clear leadership in this group and no one on the super genius level.

I don't believe this group will succeed. In fact, I am pretty sure of that. There is no clear leader (visionary). George W. Bush is not a visionary with any real thought out vision. He is merely an immediate gratification type. The problem is they could cause a lot of unintended damage.
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