Who Pays the Bills for the Bush Administration? The "Good" Bad Guys or the "Bad" Good Guys?

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By Dr. Gerry Lower, Posted by Rob Kall (about the submitter) Page 2 of 2 page(s)

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Liberal capitalism guarantees that the liberal electorate, in dealing with conservative crime and corruption, will be self-restricted to doing too little, too late. It can be seen as being entirely complicit in the crimes of conservative capitalism and it too will be abandoned in favor of progressivism's greater concern for the people and the values of democracy, e.g., honesty, integrity and compassion, values which embrace and transcend the values of liberal and conservative capitalism (4).

In other words, there is a good argument that both self-righteous conservatives and politically-correct liberals are the direct and indirect causes of America's fall from grace, both at home and abroad. There is a good argument that there will be no political survivors in America following the collapse of religious capitalism, i.e., no conservatism, no liberalism. There is a good argument that both sides will crash and burn in moral and fiscal bankruptcy, right along with the Bush administration.

There is a good argument that Old Testament religion and crony capitalism are already politically dead in the eyes of the world's people. Their advocates in America just don't know it yet. This political death is necessarily the way it will have to go in order to provide the people with a collective, national-cum-global, learning experience. The people of the Gulf states have already received their collective learning experience in witnessing the Bush administration's incompetent response to climatological terrorism.

Relearning the principles and values of democracy is simply prerequisite to re-implementing the values that made America the envy of the world, the human values that capitalism has denigrated in the name of a corrupt, corporate aristocracy. Either we relearn these principles and values on our own, or we will likely be relearning them at the request of the European Union (5).

In the final analysis, it will be the people who will pay all the bills being rung up by the Bush administration. The people who encouraged Bush's religious capitalism and the people who remained silent and allowed it all to happen are uniformly culpable, because both were supposed to honor the values of democracy, not the values of religion and capitalism.

With the fall of religious capitalism, conservatives and liberals will be reunited as a people, and they will have little choice but to pay the bills of the Bush administration, insofar as they are even payable. There is no way to pay off many of Bush's bills. How do you say that you are sorry for tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths in the Middle East? In this evolutionary progression from national corporate democracies to a global people's democracy, America will finally become what America was intended to be, a light unto itself and the world.

God bless the people. What would we do without them? They pay for everything. The people have always paid for everything. Moreover, the people have been here all along. They were here before Bush and they will be here after Bush. No wonder Jefferson could see the people as deserving of rights that transcend the daily desires of the wealthy and powerful.

When Bush says, in his self-absorbed way, "We'll all be dead," he speaks only for himself. Today's children will dance on his grave, not for the evil he has done, but for the good that will come from the end of his evil.

The question for the American people is this: How much more human insult and injury and death will the Bush administration impose on you before you take America back? It is, after all, your country. When you take it back, don't ever give it away again.

Readings

1) Eric Alterman, Corrupt, Incompetent and 'Off Center', The Nation, October 20, 2005.
2) Howard Fineman, When White House spin spins out of control, MSNBC, October 20, 2005.
3) Jonathan Chait, The religious right's raw deal, Dallas Morning News, October 23, 2005.
4) Gerry Lower, Progressivism and the Two Americas, Axis of Logic, August 30, 2004.
5) Mark Leonard, Why Europe Will Run the 21st Century, Mother Jones, October 20, 2005.

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Dr. Gerry Lower lives in Eugene, Oregon. His website is at http://www.jeffersonseyes.com and he can be reached at tisland@blackhills.com.

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