The American thinker, one of the most backward misanthropic websites on the internet.
As much of a despotic animal that Hussein was, he was like the easter bunny compared to heinous murderers that are the US ruling elites. Gangsters murderers and thieves, every last one of them--a political system that is choking itself to death on the stench and filthy excretence of its own rampant, venal corruption. So malignant is the diseased corpse of US capitalism it won't need overthrowing it will die writhing in its own filth, as will the mindless, philistines that support its actions. If you have in fact have a brain, it is a complete waste of a potentionally valuable resource and would have been of more use as a doorstop. On Dec 26, 11:02 pm, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > By James Lewis > americanthinker.com > > The Bush hatred we are seeing in the media today belongs in the long > catalogue of human psychopathology -- not rational behavior. The > latest version is the shoe-throwing incident in Iraq. Iraq happens to > be a hot war zone, in which tens of thousands of innocent people have > been killed by hidden bombs. Bush' protective detail had no way of > knowing whether an assassinaton attempt was under way, in just the way > Saddam tried to assassinate George H.W. Bush, Sr. At the end of his > two terms of office, the President flew to Iraq, into harm's way, > knowing the dangers, to hold an open press conference. > > But our media harbor such bitter hatred for him that they turned a > potential bomb-throwing incident --- by one of their own --- into a > joke, just another reason to sneer at the President. If anybody threw > a cream pie at Obama, screaming headlines would be launched for days > afterward. Nothing but sneers followed the potential attack on George > W. Bush, which he fended off with his usual grace and humor. I have > never known a US president to be treated as disgracefully as this one. > The political case against him is based almost entirely on media > falsehoods, slanders, and greed for power. Not much rationality > there. > > Our public melodrama is therefore being driven, not by facts and > reason, but by the most primitive emotions that prey on human minds. > Human brains haven't changed much in the last thirty thousand years. > Homo sapiens is a lot more prosperous species than ever, but > prosperity just allows those ancient demons to come out more freely. > If we were huddled by a small fire in a cave, hungry and miserable, we > could not indulge our fantasies as much as the pop media now allow > themselves to do. Prosperity permits our primitive urges to flourish > on the public stage. > > President George W. Bush is being crucified in the public square in > spite of his plain decency and goodness, and in spite of his > remarkable success in winning two difficult wars to protect this > nation from harm. All wars are hard; all wars involve mistakes and > self-correction. All wars, if they are to be won, come at a cost. > > While it is natural enough for conservatives to be upset by the > blatant unfairness of the propaganda media --- indeed, by their > visible madness --- if we just take a little mental distance, we can > easily see an ancient anthropological drama: The crucifixion of the > reigning king, along with the messianic glorification of a new one, > who will surely rescue us from our media-driven despair. (Of course > the new king will also grow weaker in time, in spite of his > charismatic magic ...) This is the stuff of Shakespeare and > Sophocles. George W. Bush's "head is bloody but unbowed," to quote the > poem Invictus, ("undefeated') the Victorian answer to political > witchhunts. > > The novelist Mary Renault described the whole ordeal in her classic > story, The King Must Die. Renault based her tale on legends of royal > sacrifice from the ancient Mediterranean world --- in Greece, Asia > Minor, Crete, Italy, and elsewhere. Read it if you want to understand > Bush hatred and Obama worship. Her source was Sir James Fraser's > remarkable book, The Golden Bough. While anthropologists have backed > off Fraser's claim that king sacrifice is universal, the respected > scholar James D. Brown argues that the evidence favors "Oedipal > rebellion" as a universal among native peoples studied over more than > a century. We no longer hang our kings physically, but the Left and > the media act just like the lynch mobs of old. Listen to their voices > and you'll hear the ancient roar of the mob. > > We can watch the tragicomedy of our psychopolitics unfold and still > keep some perspective. Think of it as a stage play like King Lear, and > pray that reason prevails in the end. The Leftist media are actors > playing the ancient role of the politically envious, who exist in > every tribal culture where the head of the clan sleeps uneasily, > fearful of plots and assassination attempts. All politics is not just > local, as the Washington saying goes, but deep down it is tribal. > > What is hopeful today is what was hopeful at the American founding: > the use of constitutional means to channel our loves and hates into a > fairly reasonable course of common action. The majority of Americans > are pretty sane and rational; they don't trust the political class, > and they are deserting the Big Media in the tens of millions even now. > The American Founders knew all about vulgar mobs, and lived to see > them in the French Revolution of 1789, with Napoleon rising on top of > the revolutionary chaos to explode into a mass war of conquest in > Europe. The Founders despised all that. They designed the Constitution > to steer a steady course in spite of mobs and demagogues. It has > worked magnificently for two centuries, and with luck and courage, it > will hold. > > Alexander Hamilton famously said, "The people? The people is a great > beast!" But that was not accurate: We are all "the people," as the > Declaration of Independence tells us. "The people" are the source of > all good and bad things. The people -- properly balanced by a > constitutional apparatus -- have brought prosperity that was > unimaginable two hundred years ago. The people harbor wisdom and > common sense in a way that snobbish elites soon forget. Conservatism > is skeptical about human nature, but not cynical or despairing. Nor > do we look to messianic leaders like Barack Obama to solve our > problems. We look to muddle through, to give individuals the space to > grow and succeed, to stand against the mobs, to fail at times, and > then to fight again. > > Whenever conservatives see yet another mob movement from the Left, we > feel it is our obligation to stand in opposition. It is not > unpatriotic to criticize the messiah of the moment -- though the Left > will say so. It is our duty. We can do so with reason, with humor, and > with clear thinking about the bad ideas the Left seems to carry around > like a scratchy case of the fleas. > > President Bush is not a theoretical politician. He is a practical man. > He has constantly made the best decisions by his lights, sometimes > against his own ideals, because reality sometimes makes things like > war necessary; sometimes it makes massive bailouts necessary. The > conservative question is always, "What is the realistic alternative?" > > The end product of conservative politics is a mix of realism and > idealism. Bush has liberated some fifty million Muslims, including one > Arab journalist who just hurled his trendy hush puppies at him in an > ancient gesture of contempt. That man is alive today because of George > W. Bush -- Saddam would have fed him screaming into a plastic > shredder. Compared to Obama and the corruptocrats, Bush will soon look > like an American hero. Just watch --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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