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The
Pestilent Presidency
A
Nation Conditioned
By Manuel
Valenzuela
02/02/06 "ICH" -- -- The continued dismantling of America’s very
essence, the decimation of its founding core and its evolving
surface, has been a product of both purposeful malevolence as well
as incompetent ignorance. While the lives of hundreds of millions
of Americans continue to deteriorate, each day losing more
knowledge, freedom, democracy and economic survivability – though
with many remaining ignorant or blinded to their actual plight – the
other America, that of the elite and the corporate world, has risen
in exponential fashion to take the complete reigns of power away
from the rest of us. As a result, the America of times past, where
the People still ruled, has given way to the America of tomorrow, a
corporatist ruled land where citizens are pawns and corporations
kings.
In
the five years since George W. Bush was anointed to the presidency a
pestilence of decrepit efficiency has overtaken the nation,
accelerating and magnifying what was already an empire in rapid
decline. Since early 2001, very little has gone right in the America
of working and middle class citizens, both of progressive and
conservative beliefs, young and old, hundreds of millions strong,
divided by differing opinion yet bonded by economic and social
interests. At the same time, however, the reign of George Bush the
Lesser has become a bonanza to the corporate and elite world as the
nation is plundered of treasure and altered from deep within the
halls of Washington, its wealth and resources reallocated to and
misappropriated by the Establishment, thereby transforming a
government once of, by and for the People into one strictly and
efficiently receptive only to the interests of corporations.
The
America born in 2001, first with the ascension of Bush and later
with the psychological war on Americans begun on 9/11, has
degenerated according to plan, methodically and perniciously
engineered by entities intent on corporatist control, molded into an
immovable ship on a collision course with a giant iceberg. In order
for America to sink its people had to be molded to one day accept
the fate awaiting us. Our brains had to be programmed and altered,
our minds controlled and conditioned, our beliefs brainwashed and
engineered. For years this has been achieved by the systematic
evisceration of education, gutting knowledge and reason and learning
in schools, transforming young sponge-like brains into rotting grey
matter devoid of free thought.
Millions upon millions of citizens never stood a chance as the
decrepit state of American education gutted all semblance of
knowledge, our innate ability to learn manipulated instead to
follow, obey and never question, with schools slowly but surely
creating a nation of soldier ants and worker bees, teaching us
historical propaganda and patriotic drivel, programming us to place
unyielding devotion to flag and country, instructing us about the
vast consortium of lies and fictions that comprise American
history. We were brainwashed into always placing blind faith and
trust in government and leaders, told to never question or dissent
or protest the actions rising out of Washington.
Over
years of anemic education, lacking the tools that makes the human
mind free, devoid of reason, logic and analytical thought, with
parental roles having become extinct, indoctrinated, taught and
reared by the warm glow of television and the corporate world that
controls it, our brain waves reprogrammed to the fictions and
fantasy radiating from our monitors, with the brainwashing and
controlling manipulations of our church, and with our minds becoming
the receptive antennas to the voices and opinion of paid talking
heads and media hacks tens of millions of us became, naturally, the
very essence of the automatons our upbringing had systemically
sculpted.
With
schools under funded, subsisting in financial abandonment and
teeming with reckless indifference, the state and the corporate
world were free to educate us and our children through the monitor
at home and propaganda laced schoolbooks, teaching only what was
necessary to mold and create an army of unthinking drones through
the purposeful evisceration of enlightened classes and curriculum.
Over decades of discarded education, parenting and rearing, millions
of children became the conduits and tools to power, enabling,
through their large numbers, the continued decimation of the nation
and giving rise, after years of patient lurking, to the debasement,
corruption and corporatism that was resurrected with the appointment
to power of the ultimate instrument of corporatist control, George
W. Bush.
We
became, over a series of subsequent decades, what we had allowed
ourselves to become, following the blueprints of corporatist
control, from birth mesmerized by the familiar warmth of television,
absorbing the sounds and images carefully concocted by the corporate
world which, as always, worked its magic, molding, caressing and
reprogramming brainwaves along with the eventual destinies of
millions of people. Over the years we allowed ourselves to be
programmed and conditioned, engineered to become a society more and
more willing to serve the interests of the powerful, in the process
unknowingly sacrificing our own interests and becoming, by early
2001, a readied army standing silent, prepared, at the sound of
corporatist trumpets, to march lockstep towards blind compliance,
corporatist control and an ominous future.
Those trumpets calling Americans to arms would sound the last throes
of the America of yesterday with the horrific implosion and
subsequent destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11,
2001. Like a giant hypnotizing pendulum, 9/11 became the
psychological instrument that brought life to an army molded over
years of careful manipulation and conditioning. Falling towers and
psychological operations thus acted in unison to enthrall millions
who instinctively and blindly followed the emotions and behaviors
that naturally arise from years of programmed conditioning.
Suddenly sprung to life after years waiting in the wings, millions
of engineered Americans began doing what they had been taught to do
for decades, becoming the rabidly patriotic and xenophobic citizenry
unable to see forward because of myopic views and cloud covered
thoughts, becoming the bed-wetting and fright-smeared beings
gravitating to the only entity they had been taught was capable of
protecting them from the evil bogeymen: the president.
Thus
came to pass that George W. Bush, weak in character and in mind,
failure in life and born to privilege, unlearned, unwise and
incurious, corrupt and incompetent beyond repair, was thrust upon a
paradigm shift of time, where differing dimensions crashed into each
other, creating parallel universes and alternate realities,
transforming America into a nation whose past would never again be
allowed to thrive. In the engineered Americans he would find
absolute power, along with the ingredients necessary to manipulate
the fear and terror that have invariably become the oxygen-rich air
feeding his oil thirsty veins. Thus, into the dawn of corporatist
America George W. Bush stepped in, assuring the world that nothing
would ever be the same again.
Bush’s Past, America’s Present
Upon
the trail of tears following in the footsteps of democracy lost, a
curse was birthed from Atlantic to Pacific, its dark fog covering
the light of enlightenment and reality, replaced instead with the
blackness of ignorance and blind faith. Into our lives has risen a
most contemptuous figure, a man whose immorality knows no bounds,
whose ability to lie in perpetuity is as great as his inability to
competently lead a nation.
A
man who was destined to become but a small herpes pimple appearing
but once on history’s ass was granted a gift that has only kept on
giving, becoming, since 9/11, the sustenance springing forth an
oasis of political power to Republicans and to George W. Bush in
particular. Without the horrific events that transpired on that
fateful day, Bush would have been a certain one-term president,
remembered more for his stolen election and both his subversion and
contempt for democracy than for anything he could have ever done in
the Oval Office.
Even
before 9/11 his incompetence and lack of intelligence were readily
apparent; yet his corruption was growing and evolving; his hunger to
appease the corporatist world was evident. Hugely unpopular in his
first few months in office, his administration was sinking even
before sailing, for tens of millions of informed Americans had
quickly realized the criminality of a man willing to selfishly place
his stolen election over the interests and will of the People.
Yet
his appointment to office was never designed to benefit the People,
for inside political theater of compassionate conservatism chicanery
festered and deception thrived. His was to be a presidency of, by
and for the corporate world, an ascension to absolute power by the
elite in control of corporations. He was to become the puppet of
corporatism, doing the bidding for the powerful, his last name used
as a marketing ploy to manipulate the minds of millions of voters.
With a dynastic last name, an ignorant mind and an ever-weakening
character, he became the perfect tool for the corporate world to
clandestinely insert their powerful tentacles inside the highest
office in the land.
Born
to wealth and aristocracy, with a silver spoon in his mouth and a
dark-skinned maid to acquiesce to his every demand, Bush never
learned what life was like to the vast majority of Americans.
Protected from the reality of the “real world,” the world of you and
me, he never learned the lessons or the harshness of life difficult
and unexpected, never suffering hunger, thirst, cold or the
uncertainty of living paycheck to paycheck. He never experienced
difficulty paying bills or sacrificing happiness for health.
Sequestered in the life of royalty, hidden from reality by his
attending elitist prep schools, he was unable to empathize with
anything other than the society he was born into. Needing the
affirmative action of influence and legacy in order to attend Ivy
League universities, he became a complacent and spoiled fraternity
boy, growing from male cheerleader to partier extraordinaire, as
always looking down upon the rest of America’s social classes with
contempt, feeling himself superior by birth, failing to understand
our ways of living life and our struggles, our needs and wants,
forever devoid of a humanity and an understanding of life at the
opposite end of the tracks.
Preferring to dwell in the spirits of the bottle instead of the
philosophies of books, yet possessing all the resources needed by
which to pursue a truly enlightened age of reason and age of
discovery, he instead subsisted trailing behind his much more
intelligent father’s footsteps, living off the laurels of his
parents, in time branching off on his own, though as always using
the vast resources of the family, not to mention the powerful
influence of his last name that instantly opens doors and transcends
the inertia of business, that would be the envy of any seemingly
competent entrepreneur trying to succeed in life.
Yet
even with the incredible opportunities granted him throughout his
life, Bush could never succeed on his own. Time after time he
needed the salvation and money of his father to bail him out of the
trouble that usually followed him around. With the powerful
influence of Bush the Wiser, Bush the Lesser, in spite of all his
shortcomings, inevitably always found partners and business
opportunities. It can safely be assumed that these individuals took
in the son as a favor or to gain favor with the father, always
knowing how incompetent the son was yet wanting to secure friendship
with a man whose influence in Washington only grew.
In
time, exploiting his last name, his family’s wealth, his father’s
influence and the corruption and lack of integrity by which he has
become well known today, he amassed a small fortune. Meanwhile,
sinister demons lurked about, and over time, a fondness for alcohol
developed, haunting him for years until he became a born again
Christian, a natural result befalling truly lost souls possessing
weak and vulnerable minds. It was in Scripture that he found
meaning, it was in the Church structure that he found comfort,
needing, like all lost souls, to find meaning to life both through
control of his impulses and by placing blind faith in an unseen and
unknown god.
His
born again belief in the Almighty was in part a consequence of his
psychologically fragile mind that had resulted after years of being
unable to duplicate the success of his father, knowing that he would
never surpass a legacy set in wisdom and intelligence, in better
genes and talent. The deep psychological manifestation between an
overachieving father and an underachieving son, so full of
insecurities, an inferiority complex and internal conflict, resulted
for Bush in a contempt for life only drowned either by filling the
mind with alcoholic spirits and the high of drugs, or from kneeling
down in subservient obedience to a metaphysical god demanding
complete control and power over the individual.
One
can suspect that it is this deep psychological vacuum – of a desire
to be greater than his always competent father – that has driven
Bush the Lesser during his presidency, trying desperately in every
way possible to become a better president than his father. This
quest, however, has been fruitless, resulting in even greater
incompetence and in a further fogging of logic, reason, decision
making and analytical thought, becoming a growing threat to the
Republic, as can be clearly seen over the last five years, for Bush
the Lesser is fighting a lost cause, demons that cannot be
exorcised, his mental faculty never being able to reach or surpass
that of Bush the Wiser.
It
was this utterly weak-minded individual, bereft of inner strength
and strong will, haunted by the deep insecurities of never being
able to surpass the talents and abilities of his father, that would
go on to become governor of Texas and later, President of the United
States, once again using and exploiting his last name, not to
mention the reputation of George Bush the Wiser, to carry him into
power. For Bush the Lesser knew that his assets were not his mind
or his talent, but something much more superficial, the legacy and
reputation established by his father, the human infrastructure loyal
to his father, the family wealth and the ever important Bush family
name.
Even
though he could not carry the weight of his father on his shoulders,
Bush nonetheless exploited every mechanism established and left over
by his father, knowing that if he could not surpass him, he could at
least use his legacy to reach otherwise unattainable heights. Using
all these weapons at his disposal, even a complete incompetent and
buffoon such as Bush could achieve success. It was this
infrastructure of assets established by his father that would
eventually condemn America to a Pestilent Presidency and the world
to an increased sense of threat and insecurity.
Bush’s Base
Nobody has benefited more from the tragedy of 9/11 than George W.
Bush. He has exploited its emotions, its deep scars and its echoing
voices from the grave. Without it he would be nothing, an
insignificant one term has-been troubled by the psychological
fragility his limitations engender. Yet because of his
incompetence, and some would say willful negligence, America’s new
Pearl Harbor was allowed to occur, as ever under his watch, as ever
under his disastrous leadership, or lack thereof, that has followed
him since birth. Because of 9/11 tens of millions have become
addicted to his existence, to his smirk and his strut, mesmerized at
the charade created by marketing geniuses, of a Napoleon-like being
leading the herd through the forest of ghosts and goblins, with
sword in hand slaying evildoer Arabs trying to destroy the sacred
lands of America.
He
is perceived by his base, tens of millions of individuals sharing
many characteristics, composed of Christian fundamentalists, the
conservative, the unenlightened, the selfish, the apathetic, the
easily led, the weak-minded, the unthinking, the ignorant, those
blinded by flag and cross, those more likely to hate based on race,
gender and sexual preference, the xenophobic, the extreme patriotic,
the war mongers, the greed addicts, the super wealthy, the
corporatists, the neocons and the elite, as the father figure
destiny has chosen to protect and defend them and their rights in
these most “hideous times of trouble.” It is these individuals who
blindly swear allegiance to a man of embarrassing ineptitude for
various reasons, voting for him in droves, not wanting to listen to
reason or logic even as their nation crumbles from underneath their
legs and as their cherished freedoms and liberties vanish right in
front of their eyes.
Even
as he appeals to this collection of self-destruction and
self-exploitation his interests lie in protecting, defending and
expanding the powers of those like himself, namely, the elite and
corporatists among his base. While courting the rest of his
followers, he promises heaven and delivers hell, forever weaving and
dealing and conniving in a clear pattern of deception. In Orwellian
fashion, Bush uses terms for policies that signify the exact
opposite of what he intends to do. He makes the unthinking in his
base come to the conclusion that he has their best interests at
heart.
Yet
the blind and the deaf and those that cannot think for themselves
fail to understand that they are but pawns in the game of power,
used only for their vote, contribution and political power, never to
see the benefits of what the Dear Leader preaches. In time he grants
them the morsels and crumbs and bones of what is left over, enough
to appease their illogical minds. These bits and pieces keep the
base at ease, happy enough to chew on their given bones, content
that a small sliver of what they asked for has been given them.
For
years they are kept servile to the interests of Bush’s real base,
yet they think themselves the true recipients of power. Deluded and
easily manipulated, they feverishly support the myriad of policies
that will, in the end, be of great detriment to their lives, wallets
and future of their children. Blinded by the incapacity to
understand or to read policy, knowledgeable only in the ten second
sound bites shouted out, thirty second advertisements saturated with
lies and the slogans written in cardboard propaganda, and possessing
the attention span of a gnat, the majority of those that support
Bush will invariably shoot themselves, and their children, in the
foot, their lives made worse thanks to the ardent following of a man
that undoubtedly sneers behind their backs, pillages their wages,
robs them of jobs, increases their many expenses and sends them or
their children to war. Even as they blindly follow, even as they
sign loyalty pledges, Bush is working to eviscerate their country
and their lives.
In
reality he cares not an ounce for their plight or their lives,
seeing in them only the exploited energy to be used by his corporate
allies. The average American is alien to people like George W.
Bush, enigmas that never encompassed the elitist lifestyle of
families like the Bushes. George W. Bush only saw the masses
through a looking glass, in small timeframes where by happenstance
two differing social classes would meet. We were the hired help,
the fish beyond the six inch compressed glass, the beings
represented by television, far removed from the mansions and estates
of northeastern aristocracy. To Bush the common man might be seen
and touched for periods of time, but we are never understood and
never seen as equals. We are the peasants to the ruling class, our
lives made better if only someone like Bush would look our way.
The
façade of Bush as a Texan cowboy, wearing his hat and his boots,
strutting around with his cowboy demeanor, is but a clever public
relations campaign designed to give Bush the appearance of
normalcy. His Crawford ranch is but a hollow illusion created to
make out of this pampered east coast elite a common folk that
appeals to the masses. Yet most of his years were spent in
Connecticut, living the life of luxury, attending institutions of
prestige and landed gentry. It is this group of people that Bush
represents, for they have been present throughout his bubble
existence. He is them just as much as they are him. The rest of
Bush’s followers lie far, far behind, walking where footprints
disappear to an approaching wave, to be used and abused, like they
have throughout American history, by the upper echelons of America’s
hierarchy.
It
is the corporate world, and the corporatists that control it, that
are Bush’s true constituents. To this group he has been a raving
success, one of the greatest presidents to ever take office.
Through him they have hijacked the White House and the entire
nation, transforming government into a prostitute for the corporate
world. He has appointed a multitude of corporate executives, hacks,
lackeys and talking heads to the middle and highest levels of
governance, creating, inside Washington, a nest of corporatists
gorging on a once-proud government of the People from the inside,
mutating it into a breadbasket containing the tasty and succulent
pastries making obese the bank accounts of both corporations and the
elite. The halls of governance are littered with cronies and
criminals, inept and talentless individuals whose only abilities are
incompetence, donating money and smearing their noses with the fecal
matter of power.
Since his anointment, Washington has become a bordello of cheap
prostitutes, a red light district where government officials eagerly
wait in street corners, ready to exchange money flows, anticipating
unbuckling belts, bending over, spreading cheeks and selling their
souls to corporate demons. The Beltway has become a city of
corruption and debauchery, of greed and love of the Almighty Dollar,
a perfect place for corporate interests to prevail. Laws, rules,
regulations and appropriations have been written and rewritten,
altered or created, amended or clandestinely introduced, the vast
majority of which favor in some way, shape or form the corporate
world. Science, education, reality and truth are being suppressed in
order to grant favor to corporations whose profits rely on truth not
being made public.
The
nation’s treasure has been pillaged in one of the world’s greatest
heists, a highway robbery that has left the nation and its economy
close to imminent collapse. Untold billions of dollars have
disappeared, given to cronies or to corporatist buddies, their
companies made vastly wealthy thanks to the misappropriation of a
treasure earned by the blood, sweat and tears of hard working
Americans. Meanwhile, Bush has orchestrated, along with the
Republican Party, one of the largest tax cuts to the wealthy in our
history, at the expense of the middle class, making the rich richer
and the poor poorer, leaving the nation without adequate funding and
severely compromising the future economic prospects of the nation.
George W. Bush has declared that he is a ‘war president’ and indeed
he has become one. The only problem is that he has declared a war
against the American people, along with his ill-conceived war in
Iraq, in the process inflicting severe damage to both working and
middle class citizens, in a preemptive strike against the very
foundations of America. This war has been planned for years,
becoming a platform for Republican success. By robbing the nation
of its treasure, by indebting America so severely, there will come a
time when we will be forced, in order to maintain economic
stability, to eviscerate the many social programs that are the
hallmark of American principles of justice and equality.
With
a war that will cost a trillion dollars, with tax cuts for the
wealthy and for the corporate world, with almost $500 billion going
to the military-industrial complex yearly, the corporatists in power
will declare that in order to maintain a reasonable budget, social
programs such as education, healthcare, welfare assistance, work
assistance and any policy to help the poor will have to be gutted.
We are seeing this already. For years social services have been
hated by a Republican Party that has no empathy or understanding for
the plight of the less fortunate. A party ideology that believes in
social Darwinism and in the power of unfettered capitalism has
wanted to do away with social safety nets for decades, as usual
ignorant or unconcerned to the ramifications to their actions.
Bush, ever the Jesus lover and conduit of the Almighty that he is,
is helping to destroy these very foundations.
Almost every law and regulation enacted benefits corporations at the
expense of average Americans. Today, corporations are free to run
unobstructed as they race to make as much profit as possible, caring
nothing for the people they harm in the process. Corporate profits
today, along with CEO salaries, have become a ridiculous display of
arrogance, with some companies earning profits of $10 billion per
quarter. Thanks to Bush, war has been declared against average
Americans, as corporations do as they wish, lowering wages, raising
prices, cutting thousands of jobs, outsourcing their employees to
bottom dwelling nations, using cost cutting mechanisms to further
exploit workers or compromise customers. Pensions are being cut,
healthcare is ever-more expensive, prescription pills are not
affordable, gasoline is as expensive as ever and all around, laws
are being enacted to further the interests of the corporate world at
the expense of hundreds of millions of Americans.
Is
it any wonder why companies in the oil/energy, pharmaceutical and
defense industries have had some of the highest profits ever
recorded? When your representative lives inside the White House,
when his job is to empower and enlarge corporate control over
America, all the while destroying the middle class and its freedoms
and liberties, making hundreds of millions of citizens slaves
subservient to the corporate world, you can declare mission
accomplished. This, to all who can see clearly, is the reason for
Bush’s ascension to the highest office in the land. The most
powerful man in the world has as his objective the rise to total
control of the corporate world, altering the balance of power away
from We the People and towards the direction of corporatist control.
This is Bush’s true base and to them, he has been a rousing success,
a truly great President.
Rise of the Dictator
Since Bush took the reigns of power, corruption has become endemic
in Washington. With the love of the Almighty Dollar running rampant
throughout the corridors of governance, with politics becoming more
important than policy, with public relations given more precedence
than truth and with charlatans, criminals and callous destroyers of
human life prevalent and in control, the ingredients exist to make
of Washington a putrid cocktail of immorality representing
everything that is wrong with America and the rise of unfettered
capitalism.
The
secrecy of government has never been as noticeable as it is today.
With an arrogant contempt for the People’s right to know that has
seldom been seen in our history, the Bush administration has
sequestered, hidden, whitewashed, trashed, covered up and made to
disappear what it does not want known. Whistleblowers are ruined,
investigations are squashed, investigators are promoted away from
their investigations, reports are quieted, science is trashed and
true patriots are prevented from speaking truth. Transparency and
accountability have become things of the past, as the activities of
the executive have vanished from the public record. They do
whatever they want, trash the Constitution when they so feel,
creating rules and laws beneficial to their interests, hiding their
criminality behind layers of newly concocted opinions and
Constitutional interpretations by their hired cronies and lackeys.
Since 9/11 Bush has eroded many civil liberties, freedoms and
rights, enveloping the nation into the grip of corporatism, more
commonly called fascism. Wherever Bush travels, to give a speech or
a fundraiser, is turned into a police state, with so-called “free
speech zones,” with mandatory “loyalty oaths” to those attending
Bush’s propaganda-laced speech and with a small army of police and
secret service bullying and frightening. As opposition to the Iraq
war has grown, suppressions of dissent and protest has increased,
with police forces becoming the brownshirts and blackshirts of the
Administration, intimidating and threatening peaceful protesters.
Free speech is a dying right, and inside Bush’s gatherings, where he
sits comfortably in his infallible bubble, only those who agree with
his policies or support him are allowed inside.
With
the arrival of Bush into office thanks to his illegal anointment,
the erosion of democracy since 2000 has only accelerated, with
questionable election results in 2002 and once again with the
presidential election of 2004, where millions of votes, it is now
known, were manipulated in favor of Bush. With two stolen
presidential elections, easily provable and apparent to anyone with
half a brain, American democracy has ceased to exist, becoming an
archaic antique in the minds of those still able to remember the
last clean election. The use of electronic voting, using Republican
controlled machines such as Diebold, has cast an enormous cloud over
the continued vitality of American democracy. For now, with
electronic voting machines becoming the rule rather than the
exception, their numbers growing throughout the nation, what we once
knew as democracy has died, buried six feet under the crumbling
foundations of what was once America. The question, then, becomes:
Why does Bush hate us for our democracy? Why does he fear the
principle of one person, one vote?
He
has done more damage to America in this so-called war on terror than
Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda, destroying our freedoms and rights,
severely compromising habeas corpus and due process, allowing for
arrests without probable cause, surveillance of peaceful anti-war
groups and unlawful wiretapping of American citizens. He has
granted the right to spy on us as well as the right to enter our
homes without warrants or permission or knowledge. Our computers
can be hacked, our libraries can be asked to provide private
information and private companies, it is now known, are cooperating
with the government, providing private information regarding the
accounts of Americans. Yet he has failed to adequately protect our
ports and borders, our nuclear and chemical plants. The question
should now be asked: Why does Bush hate us for our rights and
freedoms? Does he want to destroy our way of life?
More
importantly, Bush has introduced a reign of terror and fear upon the
American people. Like a darkness that does not dissipate he has
imported perpetual fear, perpetual war and perpetual terror to our
shores. He has become the ultimate terrorist, greater than any Arab
bogeyman, greater than any ghoul or goblin lurking in our closets,
much more dangerous than any Muslim. Injecting fear into our
consciousness, making millions feel insecure and unprotected, making
them dependent on him and on government for psychological comfort
enables Bush to expand his powers and his dominion over the citizens
of the nation. It is the only way he can govern, and the only way
he can maintain power. Both he and 9/11 were born on the same day,
creatures of symbiotic affection, one unable to survive without the
other. September 11, 2001, with its memories, engendered emotions
and massive exploitation, is his twin sister.
Thus
he, his handlers and his marketers terrorize the American public,
manipulating fears and emotions and psychological fragility, eroding
our inner strength and confidence, making us willingly sacrifice our
remaining freedoms and rights. Through our fear his power grows,
through our trust in him our nation is destroyed more each day.
Little do they care about our health, our stress and our worries,
preferring to continue haunting minds rather than alleviating them.
To them, 9/11 remains manna from heaven, the essence of their power,
the darkness enveloping and hiding every one of their lies,
deceptions and manipulations.
Fear
and terror must be maintained in the national spotlight, creating a
nation of bed-wetters, underwear-soilers and cry babies asking
Father Bush for protection. The Dear Leader belief must be kept
alive. It is this fear that sustains and feeds George W. Bush,
becoming his opiate, his new drug of choice. Without it he would be
finished, his popularity eviscerated, his lies exposed, his ego
trampled, his purple robe burned. With it he rules like an emperor,
a dictator whose arrogance to ignore checks and balances becomes
ever more dangerous the longer absolute power corrupts. The fear of
tens of millions of Americans allows him to lie and deceive and
manipulate and whitewash and escape all accountability, granting him
powers never granted an executive, making him, to millions of rabid
and blind supporters, a living god.
It
is the terror he exposes and markets that makes submissive to his
grip millions of Americans, robbing them of free thought or reason.
It is the terror that he manufacturers and exaggerates that
suppresses our freedoms and rights. It is the power we cede him
that grants him the ability and desire to torture, kidnap, imprison
and bomb, killing over 150,000 thousand innocent Iraqis and over
2,200 American soldiers. Our fears and insecurities have allowed him
to build a network of gulags around the world, beginning with the
concentration camp in Guantanamo. How many people have disappeared
in these prisons, never to see daylight again? How many people in
Iraq have been tortured, raped and sodomized, with Bush’s silent
consent?
It
is the terror he unleashes on the Arab world that is making our
lives more dangerous, increasing our insecurity and the risk of
further attacks. He has contributed in mass murder and devastating
destruction, maiming, injuring and causing incredible amounts of
suffering. He has completely and utterly destroyed the nation of
Iraq. Under international definitions of terrorism, George W. Bush
is the greatest terrorist alive today.
The
Jesus he claims to follow is not the Jesus that guides him as a
politician. Claiming to converse with the Almighty, claiming to be
a conduit of the Almighty’s path for humanity, Bush as President has
acted more like the God of the Old Testament than the one of the
New, unleashing death, destruction and untold suffering on hundreds
of thousands of people, most of whom are the descendents of those
that first concocted the myth of Bush’s god. He has shown no
remorse, no pity, no forgiveness and no love as he has unleashed the
instruments and weapons of war upon millions of innocent civilians,
waging his own personal jihad against Arabs and Muslims. And people
by the millions think him a Christian?
He
is an amateur dictator enraptured and corrupted by absolute power,
depending on the army of conditioned Americans to continue his
devastation, both in the Middle East and in the United States.
Nothing he has ever done has been a success, and now he is sending
one more business venture, the nation called America, down the
precipice of failure. Never succeeding, always failing, forever
bailed out by Bush the Wiser, he has never learned what it is like
to suffer hardship and pain, never experiencing hunger and
struggle. He is a callous and cold-hearted individual with deep
psychological problems, weak-minded in character and a bully in
spirit. His arrogance and hubris will be the demise of us all.
Unfortunately, his father cannot save him, or the nation, any
longer. He will fail on his own, becoming a curse upon our land, a
pestilence infecting our principles and our virtues, our rivers and
lands, our children and future.
Nothing has gone right since the curse called Bush entered office.
His is a Pestilent Presidency, a rotting manifestation of corruption
and immorality, a fraud and conniver, a most unethical human being
incapable of honor or integrity. When we should be running away
from scum such as this we instead allow him to steal two elections
and remain the pestilence that he is, creating a diseased society
devoid of the freedom it once possessed and the civil rights it
fought so hard to attain.
George W. Bush is a corporatist without intelligence, an unknowing,
incurious, detached and ignorant human beings, a puppet to much
brighter individuals, a tool for the corporate world. He does not
care for the unenlightened souls that see him as Dear Leader, nor
the soldiers he sends to either die or sacrifice mental health. In
reality, he does not care about America, at least the America of
you, me and everyone else. He is changing our lands, our society,
giving our government to corporations and the corporatists that run
them. In time, and with reflection, after the hypnosis of this most
devastating of Presidents has passed, he will be seen for what he
presently is, namely, the worst person to ever occupy the White
House, becoming, through infamy, the mistake that was and the lesson
learned.
The
Pestilent Presidency was given all the tools in life to become a
success, yet throughout his life, he has failed at everything, only
succeeding in politics thanks to his last name and the power of his
father. Born to wealth beyond our dreams, he became not a competent
and able leader, but a man devoid of talent and ability, a person
squandering the opportunity given him. Rapped inside a bubble of
luxury and elitism, he failed to understand the mass of humanity,
seeing it as easily exploitable, easily suppressed and easily
controlled. In his upbringing can we see the destruction he has
unleashed upon our nation. In his failures can we understand
today’s most troubled times.
The
Pestilent Presidency has been a malignant tumor to the America of
you, me and everyone else. He has been a grand success to the
corporate world. Who do you think he represents? Whose interests
does he help further? Only when he departs and exits our lives will
the curse of Bush lift from our country, dissipating like a long,
permanent haze, and perhaps only then can we try and reclaim what
has been lost, if it is not already too late. The ruins of what
George W. Bush will leave behind after he leaves our reality will be
strewn all around us, rotting and eroding, the whispers of a better
America barely audible, yet its horizon ready to be radiant once
again.
With
him gone we will finally try to rebuild and move forward, trying to
erase memories of the Pestilent Presidency from our midst, trying,
desperately, to make right the direction of America, trying, as much
as possible, to never again allow a pestilence to destroy what we
stand for, in the process inoculating ourselves with the antidote of
harsh lessons learned, finally eradicating the diseases and fears
that most ail us.
Manuel Valenzuela is a
social critic and commentator, international affairs analyst and
Internet columnist. His articles as well as his archive can be
found at his blog,
http://www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
and at
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
as well as at other alternative news websites from around the
globe. Mr. Valenzuela is also author of Echoes in the Wind, a
fiction novel. Mr. Valenzuela welcomes comments and can be
reached at
manuel@valenzuelas.net.
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