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Originally Posted by roachboy
for what it's worth, while i marvel at the disaster that has been the bush administration, i dont think they've pulled down the house--it has been problematic structurally for a long time, and ideologically dysfunctional since the reagan period--the politics of wholesale denial of structural issues in a context where structural issues are at the center of problems is not a good mix. the bush people have simply sped things up, by all appearances.
context matters. it is not enough to simply blame this administration, no matter the magnitude of the fiasco they've been.
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I agree with this and with rb's next post a few frames down.
I don't like Bush. I didn't like Reagan. I don't care for republican ideology and politics for the most part, but I don't fool myself into thinking that democratic politics and ideology are the inverse of them. And often I think it's the practicing of politics itself (rather than the ideological forces that inform its context) that is the greater threat to my own ideals as a citizen and a carbon-based life form on this planet...for the practicing of politics has largely become an exercise lacking in ideals and vision. It is largely motivated by two things: self-interest and money - sometimes one or the other, sometimes both. Thus we have the veritable liberal messiah of American politics, Bill Clinton, telling his administration not to use the word 'genocide' when speaking publicly about Rwanda even though they knew.
Which brings me back around to why it is I am so totally disillusioned with American politics as a whole. It's about 95% charade....I guesstimate.