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Long Term Damage....
Apr. 9th, 2009 01:53 pmI don't think many folks have figured out how badly the AMerican Psyche was damaged during the Bush Yrs. I think it's going to be worse than that of Viet Nam, though for many of the same reasons except Shrubbette was worse than Nixon. It's one of the reasons I'm not big on COnspiracy Theories; People WILL Talk, sooner or Later...
I'd noticed esp. over the last 5 yrs that the normal American cynicism about gov't had switched in many areas to complete Distrust. Nixon may have spied on Radicals(though in today's world most of those would be concidered pretty Lame)but he never went so far as to declare the COnstitution Irrelivant by their open Actions. He knew he was doing Wrong and had at least a modicum of Decency(bet you don't hear that much in connection to Nixon;>)by hiding his Evil...Bush declared the American Way of Life Irrelivant to His Goals. Sauron or Sauruman, the Goal was the same.
I've noticed in Media, Film and Books that our Gov't now is looked on as the Enemy. The Cynical View of the Uncaring Political Machine has been replaced thanks to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld Triad as an Active source of Evil on the Populace. It's going to be DECADES before we recover to Cynicism. Who would have thought that the view of Gov't's Helpless Aquiesence to Evil of the "X Files" yrs would be looked back to as a Happier, more Carefree Time...
Truth,
Pat
I'd noticed esp. over the last 5 yrs that the normal American cynicism about gov't had switched in many areas to complete Distrust. Nixon may have spied on Radicals(though in today's world most of those would be concidered pretty Lame)but he never went so far as to declare the COnstitution Irrelivant by their open Actions. He knew he was doing Wrong and had at least a modicum of Decency(bet you don't hear that much in connection to Nixon;>)by hiding his Evil...Bush declared the American Way of Life Irrelivant to His Goals. Sauron or Sauruman, the Goal was the same.
I've noticed in Media, Film and Books that our Gov't now is looked on as the Enemy. The Cynical View of the Uncaring Political Machine has been replaced thanks to the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld Triad as an Active source of Evil on the Populace. It's going to be DECADES before we recover to Cynicism. Who would have thought that the view of Gov't's Helpless Aquiesence to Evil of the "X Files" yrs would be looked back to as a Happier, more Carefree Time...
Truth,
Pat
