Why Bush?

George W. Bush is a third-rate human being. He was a C student at Yale. He isn't capable of being president of anything. Even his business ventures failed and he had to be bailed out by family and friends. If you look closely at his body language you will see that he is a very insecure person. There's a hurt little boy look in his eyes. He is emotionally driven, not rational, but a strong believer, that's why he is “The Decider”. He isn't thoughtful or curious, not interested in learning about the world. He has a good-ol'-boy manner that communicates with people who share that emotional makeup. His lack of language ability demonstrates an inability to think clearly. When his supporters hear his often incomprehensible statements, they only hear the emotional tone that resonates with theirs' and ignore the content, just like Bush. Whether he is a puppet may be a matter of interpretation, but he is certainly heavily influenced by business and other authoritarian concerns. It's likely that he doesn't understand freedom and democracy – he has no feel for it.

President Bush is a reflection of our social dysfunction - we deserved him. A growing political polarization was tearing apart our nation. Had we been sane back in 2000, we wouldn't have elected him as our president. His obvious incompetencies were ignored. But we had economic and other worries after the DotCom bubble burst and the Clinton sex scandal in the late 1990s, so we were angry and wanted a change. When the 9/11 attack happened, we were ripe for authoritarian, paranoid manipulation from politicians who were living a delusion and devised an imperialist, preemptive agenda for the Middle East. It was certainly about protecting our access to oil, but there was a need to control other nations to force them to do our bidding. Bush also wanted to fulfill what he thought was his father's failure in Iraq, and the Neocons found he was easily manipulable to fulfill their warped agenda. This is an administration of emotionally dysfunctional authoritarians, bad for the nation and the world. That's why much of the world doesn't like us.

We must rid ourselves of this administration and its failing conservative policies to get back on a path where America can again lead the world. Whether we are coming back to rationality only time will tell. It's time for a mass healing.