Topic: Why George W. Bush doesn't deserve to be re-elected
In short, George W. Bush was not elected President, nor does he deserve to be re-elected. George W. Bush is the anti-thesis of democracy, he was never democratically elected to hold the office he now infests. George W. Bush is the anti-thesis of unity, his policies divide America economically, politically and socially. George W. Bush is the anti-thesis of America, as he promotes inequality, empire and democracy *when it works for him*.
More than anything about his politics & policies, history or beliefs, I hate George W. Bush as a person. He is a stupid, unfeeling, beady-eyed, lying, thieving and democracy usurping scum.
George W. Bush is a liar. Al Gore lied too, but Al Gore only lied when his words were misconstrued and even then the "lies" were petty and meaningless. George W. Bush's lies cost people a lot of money, time and effort. Sometimes even their lives. He lied about tax cuts, the reasons for invading the nation of Iraq, jobs, commitment to catch Osama bin Laden, the cost of the war in Iraq, the cost of his Medicare bill, willingness to fund NCLB, uniting the county as he claimed he would in 2000, a "humble foreign policy" and an "end to nation building".
George W. Bush is stupid. He chokes on pretzels, falls off bicycles, talks like a braindead cowboy butchering the English language and the laws of the civilized world. The leader of the free world, in charge of thousands of nuclear weapons, should be able to pronounce the god damn word "nuclear" in a manner other than "nuk-yu-lar".
George W. Bush is so stupid he believes his own lies. He believes the lies people around him likely tell him about himself. He believes, apparently, that he has been mandated by God to rule in this time and furthermore strike at the "evildoers" and destroy so-called terrorism. Another guy believes God has mandated him to rule and kill, I call him Osama bin Laden.
George W. Bush is callous. He is almost entirely unfeeling to the suffering of millions in poverty, millions without healthcare, people losing their jobs in the millions, homosexuals that want to be able to marry, those with opposing political ideologies and cultures different from the way he perceives his own.
George W. Bush is not compassionate. There is absolutely nothing compassionate about sending people to war for a giant pack of lies. There is nothing compassionate about leaving people to an unfair, uneven and polarized economic situations and telling them to take responsibility for their own shitty living conditions. There is absolutely nothing compassionate about telling people they cannot marry because it clashes with your own narrow-minded, ignorant and exclusionary religious values.
George W. Bush's econmic policy is simple: Take from the poor and give to the rich. Whether it is through tax cuts, spending or just de-regulations and special favors to the corporations.
George W. Bush has convinced most of America that giving rich people more money fixes the economy. The only thing fueling our economy right now is increased consumer, corporate and government spending. While this is partially a result of tax breaks to middle-class families, it is by far largely done by government defense spending and increased corporate spending. Both are good things, but they can't last.
The government is in debt, and will eventually have to stop. When the economy starts to slow down again from the overheated nature it is enduring right now, corporations will pull back spending. We don't need economic activity, we need economic balance.
Currently that balance doesn't exist. The poor are getting poorer, the rich are getting richer. Jobs are being created, but they are only replacing what was already lost and they are by far lower quality than what existed 4 years ago. Healthcare costs are skyrocketing, tuition costs are multiplying and education programs are largely floundering and unfunded.
And instead we are spending hundreds of billions of dollars to fight a threat that never existed in three parts of the world.
Terrorism poses no significant threat to this country, yeah you heard me. In two hundred years, they have managed one attack on our soil. It was a fluke. And now we are supposedly safer from the obscenely named Patriot Act anyways. We are fighting a band of a few hundred loosely organized people with exceptionally crude technology.
The so-called threat is overplayed. Dick Cheney and Bush would have us believe we are fighting a band of some millions of terrorists. There are nowhere near that many. Even the ones that are here are having a hard time organizing, planning and conducting attacks. How do I know? There hasn't been an attack on our soil after 9/11 by terrorists. There also hasn't been one before that.
There are people that hate us in the world. There are people capable of striking us. But they are few in number, poor in organization and pathetic in terms of weaponry. The likelihood of a dirty bomb, biochemical weapons, nuclear weapons or hijacks planes happening again is not likely.
This is because it barely ever happens, has never happened in some cases and is very unlikely to happen for the rest due to difficulty of planning, gathering of materials and carrying out the attacks without getting caught.
A nation of paranoid people and a government that spies on its own people is certainly going to make it more difficult for them, but it is not needed.
The only terrorist threat in the world is fear as a concept. We have let ourselves become afraid of terrorists, infact we have become scared silly of almost nothing. They are a fly on our collective back, and that isn't just arrogance speaking. We have started their wars, began their agendas of fear and division and we have given them the fear and change they wanted.
Step by step, day by day, we are letting Osama bin Laden win.
An America that can let its own citizens live in divided and poor conditions and let the rich get richer, while we all fight un-needed wars against and for things that never existed is not an America worth living in or defending.
