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Analysis of Bush Dictatorship

Comment by Larry Ross, July 18, 2007

The following analysis from the Radical Left could have from Conservative or Radical Right sources as well.

It is really a matter of objectively considering the facts, cutting through the double think, propaganda and party loyalties to make an honest analysis - and perhaps face some very unpleasant facts and suspicions. Some of the best analysts are from the right of the political spectrum - people like John Paul Roberts and Morgan Reynolds. I really respect and feature their work although I would be labelled as from the left of the political spectrum. In fact I'm neither right nor left and reject this kind of 'don't think' labelling.

The labels 'right and left' when applied to people or political thoughts often inhibits a rational consideration of the issue at hand. The tendency is to generate an immediate bias and then dismiss the issue without consideration.

Another example is if someone says or writes: - that's a 'conspiracy theory' or he's a 'conspiracy theorist' or, 'conspiracy nut'. Again, the purpose is to demean and belittle the person and the theory or argument, so that it is not examined with rationality. Often that is enough for a person to simply delete the item and not examine it. But if examined at all, it will be with a pre-programmed bias, with a person ready to react as programmed. During the cold war, it used to be that anything labelled as "communist" or "communist propaganda" or "left leaning" was enough to discourage rational consideration. We were told what to think, what to accept and what to reject by the would-be policemen of our thinking and what we were allowed to consider.

The situation is the same today, because people are still 'sheeple'. They have not learned. They go with the authorities of the day. Sheeple believe the most outrageous lies and happily reject huge bodies of evidence that show what they wish to believe, is nothing but a lie. They can be terribly smug and righteous about upholding a big lie, and trashing any contrary theory no matter how well documented. They are the same kind of people who used to burn witches at the stake for their supposed wicked deviations from the 'truths' given to them by the high priests of the time. Bush's neocons are the high priests of today - inventing realities to justify their policies. Confounding though it may be, the 'Sheeple' will condemn Bush and his mind-shaping team, but nevertheless they believe the new lies Bush and his neocons spew forth and they are suspicions of any theory that questions these lies. There are millions of sheeple and they are described very well in George Orwell's book "1984".

This introduction is necessary to try and eliminate any irrational, programmed bias, and allow your mind to objectively consider the issue and the following argument from the Radical Left. However, after it is an argument from the right by Prof. Morgan Reynolds, a high appointee of the first Bush Administration.

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General George Bush: America's Presidential-Military Dictator

by Jo Swift, July 16, 2007

Bush emphasized the role of the military as a counterweight to public opinion. He outlined a concept of presidential power that upholds the military as a critical “constituency” rising above, and placed in opposition to, the American people. Every would-be dictator claims that his authoritarian measures are taken to ensure national security. Everything else must be sacrificed, including democratic rights. This is the basic line that has been utilized by the government since 9/11 to lay siege to constitutionally protected democratic rights, in the name of the “war on terror”. Bush's Power Play Bush isn't playing the power trip for popularity and effect. He's playing it to win by any means necessary. Meanwhile, the American people and the Congress that is supposed to be looking out for their best interests have treated this administration like a golf partner who, sure, has made some mistakes on the fairway but is a nice guy above it all on the green. Wrong. Totally, incredibly, stupendously wrong. Bush has shown more than, say, 100 times that he's in this to win it. And by win it, I mean consolidate power and influence with zero concern for where it leads the country, economy or, in the end, the legislative branch. He's stacked the Supreme Court with conservative pals, and the Congress confirmed them without a thought.

He's invented a devastating and crushingly expensive war, and Congress gave him a blank check and continues to do so.

He's tortured and imprisoned thousands of innocents and killed millions of the same, all while spying like a pervert voyeur on the American people, and Congress has given him the greenlight to do so by taking impeachment off the table.

It's getting harder and harder to figure out just what Congress needs to wake up and realize that he's simply a dictator performing a coup against the very people he has promised to represent.

Here's the fuck-you in a nutshell: His ratings are lower than ever, yet his power is greater than ever. If that doesn't say dictator, I don't know what does.

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