If you think you’re alone in an assessment that Bush has led the US into a brick wall, you should check this fascinating article in the German press.
You are not alone.
When you look at facts without the rightwing noise machine and the fascist apologists, you get a clearer view of where Bush 43 is taking us. He is creating the nightmare scenario that his father and Ronald Reagan did not want to happen: The fall of the right wing.
The confidence that grew out of victory in the Cold War gave rise to the confidence to march into Iraq. The failure in Iraq threatens to undermine the moral certitude that Thatcher and Reagan nurtured in the Right. And it has weakened faith in the effects of the use of military force and the exportability of democracy.
Ronald Reagan is dead, Margaret Thatcher is senile and the ideological world that they created is now dying with them. From 1979 to 2004, the political Right won the Western world's battle of ideas. Conservatives triumphed because they were correct about the two biggest issues of that era: They were for free markets and against communism. But now confusion on the Right prevails, because today it is they who are on the wrong side of the West's two greatest political issues: climate change and the Iraq War...
... Moreover, the Iraq debacle has damaged the intellectual and moral self-confidence of the Right. The worldviews of Reagan and Thatcher were based on a firm belief in military strength and an imperturbable confidence in the moral superiority of the Western democracies. When the Cold War was won in 1989, the Right indulged in an over-the-top universalism. The jubilant masses in Prague and the Baltic states seemed striking proof that all of humanity strives for the same things and that the Western formula for freedom and prosperity could be exported and universally applied.
Link here: http://www.ftd.de/...
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Watch this video on YouTube ( down the FP ) and see the facts of the case. Even those dedicated to the mission fully believe that the mission in Iraq is hopeless and lost.
Link here: http://www.youtube.com/...
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It is only matter of time before we see the media and the rest of the country follow suit.
This post from Kossack dwgelbman make sthe point that the resistance to the war is an albatross around the neck of Conservatism, and while they can hide the caskets from out sight, and they can under report street marches, the resistance is there nonetheless.
10 million of us marched in the freezing February weather of 2003 in New York, London, Rome, Paris and elsewhere. In March we marched again. Now here in Boston. And again. And again. We called and wrote congress. We held vigils. I even even attended a prayer service for peace. But the Bush Administration invaded Iraq anyway.
Link here: http://www.dailykos.com/...
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Young people, who are not part of the Fox Noise Machine/Rush Limbaugh audience are acutely aware of the fact that they are falling behind. Like David Bowie said And these children that you spit on as they try to change the world/ are immune to your consultations/ they are quite aware of what they're going through.
Income inequality has increased in the United States over the last three decades, Bernanke said. Income at the 90th percentile of wage earners -- those close to the top -- rose 34 percent between 1979 and 2006, while the wage at the 10th percentile rose a scant 4 percent in that period, he said.
Link here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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This AP Poll where George W Bush is ranked as America’s greatest villain tells us that no matter how much support the talking bobbleheads on the 24/7 newschannels give him, the end is near. Now I won’t stick my neck out as far Jonah Goldberg did on Iraq (predicting that there would be a stable democracy in a few years).
Watch this and weep- or laugh-whichever: http://www.youtube.com/...
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I saw a long film this weekend- 16 to 18 year olds in focus groups-and it opened my eyes and even gave me hope. Many who once saw Bush as a hero are growing up and now seeing few great job opportunities, no chance of getting into a decent college, and America painted as evil. This group of young people are seeing the war as a lie and kids can smell bullshit a mile away. This new generation, minus the brainwashed, is rejecting this war. They are rejecting fighting going across the world while the gulf between watch they want and what they can realistically have grows everyday. And I am not just talking about cars and clothes.
This is generation that grew up hearing all the tired old memes of America as the greatest nation of the world, while they cannot afford to go to the doctor, and the change they earn at Starbucks will not get them very far.
The Associated Press national polling tells us that 28% of Americans think the country is going in the right direction and 68% think the country is gong in the wrong direction.
Link here: http://www.pollingreport.com/
Iraq is not just bringing down conservatism, Bush is. He has come to represent the face of the Conservative movement. And when people see him, they see failure.