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Originally posted by irseg
I think liberals are anxious to see the US fail because of their extreme hatred of GWB.
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Why can't you understand that I don't even think about George Bush?
I don't hate him. I wouldn't even know he existed if it wasn't for the fact that he is the president. I didn't know or care about him when he was in Texas.
I also don't get this constant linkage between George Bush and the interests of the US. Having grown up in this nation, and my family having lived here since the beginning of the US coming into existence, I have at least as much claim to holding the ideals this nation stands for as the next person. Why is Bush's, or some conservative's, idea of what this nation stands for more important than mine? I can quite accurately say that Bush wants the US to fail, using such absurd reasoning as I see in this thread. But we both live here, so neither makes much sense to claim unless one of us is then going to argue that one or the other is irrational. I guess I just want my lifestyle to end. Yep, that must be it. I wish civilization as I know it, and have known it to exist for nearly 30 years, would just end. I must hate George Bush so much that I want my lights to shut off. I don't want potable water. This man I never knew, never will meet, and who's life history and path will never cross with mine, raises my ire so much that I just wish the sun would stop shining. Yeah, you sure got "us" liberals figured out.
Even if I hated George Bush, I must then hate the US?
I wonder what the motivation of the rest of the world is. The entire world, and US liberals, must hate George Bush. They must hate this man so much that they want the US to fail. Although, what they want it to fail at, or what "it" (as if that were the entire nation all in one descriptor) is, is never really explicit.
To us, and a huge portion of the world, George Bush and "the US" is already failing. That's the reason underlying such criticism. No matter how much one hated someone else or wanted someone else to fail, it wouldn't occur unless the person or agency actually
failed. I can sit in my house and hate and criticize all day long. But that isn't going to make George Bush fail unless he is a failure.
Maybe a more accurate description is that supporters are so enamored with George Bush that they can't recognize when the things he and his administration set out to do fail.