In the film "Judgment at Nuremburg", Colonel Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark) drunkenly says the following in response to suggestions that the German people as a whole were innocent victims too:
There are no Nazis in Germany. The Eskimos invaded Germany and took over, that's how all those terrible things happened. It wasn't a fault of the Germans, it was a fault of those damned Eskimos.
I've been thinking about this quote, and some things are clear to me if this ever gets turned around.
- Republicans will claim that they were never supporters of Bush. I saw the same thing in 1973 about Nixon.
- That Bush will be portrayed as somehow an aberration in American culture.
This is wrong, George Bush is the United States. The fact that he has "won" two national elections, despite being an inept speaker with the intellectual initiative of a bowl of pudding.
George Bush is us. He is not "the Eskimos".
Where does that put the average American, and where does that put those of us who have been opposing him?
What is our culpability.