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As an American, I am embarrassed to report that my fellow citizens have failed the national IQ test. They have chosen to re-elect a champion of fear and distortion, and in doing so, have sent a message to all future presidential candidates that fear and aggression make far more effective political slogans than peace and prosperity.
The American people have, in essence, given the Bush Administration two thumbs up on its policy of invading foreign countries with no justification, spending more on war and destruction than on education, and lying to the American people while simultaneously stripping away their civil liberties. Yet, astoundingly, half the country just can't get enough of this treatment. They want more wars, fewer civil liberties, more spending on missiles and bombs, and practically no focus on the issues that really matter day to day such as health care, education and the national debt.
I have no explanation for this other than the realization that half my fellow American citizens have been utterly hoodwinked. Or, to be more precise, fifty-one percent. The minds of Americans are easily shaped by policies of fear, it seems. If you scare the people enough, they'll vote for anybody. Even for Bush. And even if the rationale for war makes no sense whatsoever.
It is difficult to observe this outcome and not come to the conclusion that our Democracy has failed. The viability of a Democracy depends upon the education of its people and their ability to intelligently sort out right from wrong, truth from lies, and genuine moral character from false values. Yet no such intelligence has been sighted anywhere near the 51% who voted for Bush. Rather, what we've seen is a fear-driven vote, championed by a delusional man who claims to be performing "the work of God."
More specifically, we've seen Bush-supporting Americans follow in the frightening footsteps of Nazi supporters in 1939. They proudly display the same bumper stickers and slogans: "American pride / German pride." They believe in the same destruction of their own civil liberties as part of the process for creating freedom. And they rest their arguments on similar distortions in logic: "War is peace. We can only defend our country by invading foreign nations before they attack us first."
Intelligent, educated people don't subscribe to these beliefs. An educated population would only choose war as a last resort. An educated population would recognize that Bush himself flatly does not have the mental capacity to lead a nation. An educated population would have realized long ago that the war on Iraq has nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11, and therefore was obviously drummed up to invoke the fervor of patriotism that tends to get power-hungry politicians re-elected, regardless of the historical era in question.
But, alas, we are not an educated population. Of no fault to the dedicated teachers who genuinely try to make a difference, we are nevertheless a nation of high-school dropouts, grain farmers, paper-pushers, McDonalds workers, ethically-impaired business owners, prescription drug quacks, and propaganda artists parading as reporters on networks like Fox News. We are a nation of fabricated financial wealth that is utterly lacking in the wealths of the soul: humility, forgiveness, creativity, honesty, respect for nature, and recognition of the value of a human life, just to name a few.
By any measure, we are a nation without a soul. In time, that void will be matched by the financial collapse of a government so deeply in debt that no candidate dare mention the issue. No voter wants to hear the cold fact that every man, woman and child in the U.S. owes more than $25,000 to foreign investors who keep the U.S. economy running on financial fumes. The national debt has become the black sheep issue that both candidates agreed to avoid. Thus, the debate topics like Iraq served primarily as diversions to prevent the population from realizing that our own nation's financial foundation is rapidly deteriorating. After all, what does $125 billion in spending on a foreign war really do for you when you can't pay rent or feed your family next week?
In his latest video tirade, Osama Bin Laden threatened to bankrupt the United States. Tonight, he must be smirking, because president Bush has done the job for him. The U.S. is bankrupt, folks, and it is bankrupt in every way a nation can be: morally, financially and spiritually.
And now, the majority of the American people have told the world they just can't get enough of this treatment. We want more. Citizens of the international community -- people from Canada, Germany, France, Hong Kong, New Zealand and other nations -- are right now thinking the United States has gone mad. And they're largely correct.
It only seems justified, I suppose, that in this moment of gloom, our population has chosen to be led even further into the void by a President who is, himself, morally and spiritually bankrupt. Remember, the voters always get the government they deserve.
Well, folks. Ya got Bush.
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