by sunny » Thu Feb 16, 2006 12:55 am
You got that right, Floyd. All of you <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>have</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> to read this post from Glenn Greenwald, one of <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>the</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> best bloggers on the 'net. In the following article, he deconstructs the bushbots so perfectly that when they tried to refute him, they ended up proving his points to a T. <br>Read it and laugh- or weep. While you're there, look around.(especially the follow up to this-but this is a permalink) He's got the best analysis of the domestic spying issue anywhere.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/02/do-bush-followers-have-political.html">glenngreenwald.blogspot.c...tical.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>###############<br>excerpt:<br><br>That "conservatism" has come to mean "loyalty to George Bush" is particularly ironic given how truly un-conservative the Administration is. It is not only the obvious (though significant) explosion of deficit spending under this Administration – and that explosion has occurred far beyond military or 9/11-related spending and extends into almost all arenas of domestic programs as well. Far beyond that is the fact that the core, defining attributes of political conservatism could not be any more foreign to the world view of the Bush follower.<br><br>As much as any policy prescriptions, conservatism has always been based, more than anything else, on a fundamental distrust of the power of the federal government and a corresponding belief that that power ought to be as restrained as possible, particularly when it comes to its application by the Government to American citizens. It was that deeply rooted distrust that led to conservatives’ vigorous advocacy of states’ rights over centralized power in the federal government, accompanied by demands that the intrusion of the Federal Government in the lives of American citizens be minimized.<br><br>Is there anything more antithetical to that ethos than the rabid, power-hungry appetites of Bush followers? There is not an iota of distrust of the Federal Government among them. Quite the contrary. Whereas distrust of the government was quite recently a hallmark of conservatism, expressing distrust of George Bush and the expansive governmental powers he is pursuing subjects one to accusations of being a leftist, subversive loon.<br><br>Indeed, as many Bush followers themselves admit, the central belief of the Bush follower's "conservatism" is no longer one that ascribes to a limited federal government -- but is precisely that there ought to be no limits on the powers claimed by Bush precisely because we trust him, and we trust in him absolutely. He wants to protect us and do good. He is not our enemy but our protector. And there is no reason to entertain suspicions or distrust of him or his motives because he is Good.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>