Listening to Bush tonight, I believe the man is sincere. He thinks the
United States can make the world safer through hard hand, despite all
the lessons through the ages that you can't win against a guerilla war,
against people in their own country, geographical or, in this case,
ideological, through traditional military force. It looks good, makes
you look like you are acting decisively, while you are, meanwhile,
doing exactly what the terrorists want you to do - legitimize their
existence, and give them rationale and recruits for future acts of
terror.
Hearing him speak about the politics of tax and spend being dead, that
his conservativism represents the new politics seems so Orwellian. His
politics represents the old politics, the old politics of feudalism,
with a coca cola soma smile.
The thing is - I understand. There's something comforting in this
complex world of harking back to old lines, simpler times, man and
woman, white men with guns, rich people controlling the government. But
it's that very politic that will destroy the United States in the next
10 years.
I think that may explain, on some collective level, why there is such
divisiveness in this country today. It's not about different policies -
this election represents a small step towards adjusting trajectory,
with about forty-four percent of the voting population voting out of
irrational fear, limbic brain, forty-four percent who basically get
that the market is not the only, nor the best means, of advancing
humanity, and single digits of people who are actually rationally
voting out of self interest for the old, individuated self, the short
term, seasonal human, and single digits of people who are actually
rationally voting because they understand the importance of future
generations, evolving out of compassion, not conflict.
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