[Peace-discuss] Mull this over…

[Morton K.Brussel]

An interesting  perspective, even if restricted in its outlook. It is 
from an article by Theodore Roszak,  on the CommonDreams website:

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1012-22.htm

"Suppose, then, George W. Bush dropped all pretenses and simply 
declared, "OK, you wanna know my domestic agenda? Here it is. Dick 
Cheney, Tom DeLay and I aren't just gonna defeat the liberals, we're 
gonna obliterate them, along with every progressive reform since the 
days of Teddy Roosevelt, every New Deal program, every Great Society 
entitlement. Why else do you think we're running these sky-high 
deficits? We're handing as much dough as we can to the people who know 
how to run this country -- namely the super-rich. Sure, that's gonna 
cost the rest of you jobs and social services, but isn't it worth it to 
give the poor, the nonwhite, the welfare queens, the gays and the 
feminazis a swift kick in the teeth?

  "What's my foreign policy? Listen up. We're gonna yank that oil out 
from under those dysfunctional Arabs because we need it to preserve our 
gas- guzzling way of life, and I'm not asking anybody for a permission 
slip to do that. We're God's chosen people and we intend to make the 
most of it. And if anybody gets in our way, we've got what it takes to 
clobber them."

  If Bush took that line, I wonder if it would it cost him a single vote 
he doesn't already have. And how many swing voters might be won over by 
such decisive, non-flip-flopping leadership? As for the single-minded 
evangelicals who have become the key to any winning political strategy, 
the Republicans have them so locked in that even if Bush were 
discovered having lunch with the devil, they would still vote for him 
-- as long as he treated them to an occasional kick at the gays and the 
feminists."
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