implosion
I've been trying to take a little bit of a bigger picture view of this stuff lately. I can feel my frustration level rising and the tension in the back of my mind is building as the election gets closer. I don't know if i've had a revelation...certainly nothing concrete and distinct has happened...but i have started thinking about this all differently. I've decided that it doesn't matter who wins because Bush is doomed, even if he wins the election. On the one hand we get a tepid democrat, better in far too many ways to list, but he is saddled with the remains of a failed war, a broken army and a world that despises us. On the other hand we get Bush back to atone for his calculated political maneuvering, the last gasp of a republican party in the death throes of systemic overreach. If bush gets a second term the inculcation of his failures will be crystalized in the american psyche and will initiate an unprecidented political realignment. the overreach will be punished.
he is the doppelganger of Kerry. They are a matched set, perfect for the country to finally work out its Vietnam anger and grief, so it can start to grow again. Two sons of privilege, who went to Yale, tapped by Skull and Bones, etc. Only one took part in the great event of their time and the other hid out, courtesy of daddy, drunk and smoking dope, until the military threw him out. Bush is the man the country is meant to reject, needs to reject in order to put its house in order and move on. The people may not get it yet, but they will. It's almost like a Greek play, it's so clear. He is cast in a role he doesn't understand. He would be destroyed in his second term.
If I were Bush, or Rove, I would stop trying to supress the Democratic vote right now. They will fare much better if Kerry wins. Just go home to Texas. Bush can be Baseball Commissioner, a job much more suited to his abilities. A Kerry win will take the pressure off them. But a Bush win will shine a harsh light on them and there will be trouble in the land. Civil unrest. The beginning of their end.
I guess before i thought it was the other way around...
he is the doppelganger of Kerry. They are a matched set, perfect for the country to finally work out its Vietnam anger and grief, so it can start to grow again. Two sons of privilege, who went to Yale, tapped by Skull and Bones, etc. Only one took part in the great event of their time and the other hid out, courtesy of daddy, drunk and smoking dope, until the military threw him out. Bush is the man the country is meant to reject, needs to reject in order to put its house in order and move on. The people may not get it yet, but they will. It's almost like a Greek play, it's so clear. He is cast in a role he doesn't understand. He would be destroyed in his second term.
If I were Bush, or Rove, I would stop trying to supress the Democratic vote right now. They will fare much better if Kerry wins. Just go home to Texas. Bush can be Baseball Commissioner, a job much more suited to his abilities. A Kerry win will take the pressure off them. But a Bush win will shine a harsh light on them and there will be trouble in the land. Civil unrest. The beginning of their end.
I guess before i thought it was the other way around...