Bush is not just stupid, though I think he is. Bush is not just arrogant, though I think he is. Bush simply doesn't care about "those sorts of people". The poor, the black, the distressed.
Bingo.
In fairness, it's not just Bush. I think you've put your finger straight on the mindset behind the entire political philsophy of which Bush is simply the highest ranking member of. The same mindset which was responsible for the Purple Heart Bandages during last year's Presidential Election. The same mindset which sees absoulutely nothing wrong with enthusiastically supporting a war, *not* supporting sufficent armor, planning, or veteran's health care, and yet, once the number of volunteers falls far short of needed, refusing to either volunteer themselves, their children, or to call for a draft to spread the risk evenly and fairly -- the Chickenhawks, the "Fighting Keyboardists". The same mindset which sees the "Guilded Age" of the 1890's as America's Golden Age, when the barons of industry lived in unprecedented (for the time) luxury while teeming millions lived in squalor. The same folks which, in all the years since President Johnson -- including all eight years I've fought as a activist in medical activism [1] -- have consistently opposed any effort to try to expand health care coverage here in America to the average working American.
That last, perhaps, why I am, sadly, utterly unsurprised by all that has happened since this mindset and its partisans took control of government. I've dealt with and fought these people. I know how they think. And at core, they don't give a shit about the average person. Many have an almost unmitigated contempt for the average person, a sneering arrogance, a remarkable lack of concern about what happens to the "average" person. The people have no bread? Let them eat cake.
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Date: 2005-09-03 06:59 am (UTC)Bingo.
In fairness, it's not just Bush. I think you've put your finger straight on the mindset behind the entire political philsophy of which Bush is simply the highest ranking member of. The same mindset which was responsible for the Purple Heart Bandages during last year's Presidential Election. The same mindset which sees absoulutely nothing wrong with enthusiastically supporting a war, *not* supporting sufficent armor, planning, or veteran's health care, and yet, once the number of volunteers falls far short of needed, refusing to either volunteer themselves, their children, or to call for a draft to spread the risk evenly and fairly -- the Chickenhawks, the "Fighting Keyboardists". The same mindset which sees the "Guilded Age" of the 1890's as America's Golden Age, when the barons of industry lived in unprecedented (for the time) luxury while teeming millions lived in squalor. The same folks which, in all the years since President Johnson -- including all eight years I've fought as a activist in medical activism [1] -- have consistently opposed any effort to try to expand health care coverage here in America to the average working American.
That last, perhaps, why I am, sadly, utterly unsurprised by all that has happened since this mindset and its partisans took control of government. I've dealt with and fought these people. I know how they think. And at core, they don't give a shit about the average person. Many have an almost unmitigated contempt for the average person, a sneering arrogance, a remarkable lack of concern about what happens to the "average" person. The people have no bread? Let them eat cake.
(cont.)