The "legacy" of the Bush presidency is one of failure -- failed policies, failed worldview, failure to uphold the Constitution, failure to respect the will of the people -- utter failure.
This legacy includes:
- Hostility to, rather than engagement with, most of Latin America
- A spiral of American deaths in Iraq
- Lies
- Disdain for the sanctity of life
- Heroes' reputations tarnished
- Political purges in the intelligence communities
- Torture
- Lies
- Contempt for the US Constitution
- Fascist tactics in the (so-called) "war on terror"
- Lies
- More torture
- Right-wing hypocrisy
- Utter contempt for Christian values and a perversion of Christianity
- Still more torture
- Government-sanctioned kidnapping
- Even more torture, and Government rationalizations for it
- Growth of military intelligence, at the expense of civilian intelligence agencies
- "Supporting our troops" by making them scapegoats for war criminals
- A war on journalists?
- Secrecy
- Increasing global isolation (and irrelevance) of the United States
- A dangerous "ally" -- Pakistan
- Lies
- Incompetent maladministration
- Political exploitation of Christianity while ignoring its core message
- Nuclear proliferation
- Getting cozier with Pakistan
- Contempt for science
- US support for for pro-American terrorism
- Did I mention torture?
- Lies
- Making the world safer for terrorists
- Growing poverty, declining healthcare
- Lies
- Corporate welfare
- Making the world safer for terrorists
- Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq: making the world safer for drug dealers
- Yes, more torture
- Stupid policy on arms sales
On the plus side, perhaps we'll see, as a result of Bush's disastrous presidency, an attenuation of
- Right-wing fundamentalist power
- Divisive religious ideologies
- GOP political power for most of a generation
This is just scratching the surface. We're only up to May of 2005. More to follow as the Bush presidency dwindles.
2 comments:
While I'm sure you used autistic license for the effect, repeating bullet points to make a long list doesn't really make that list longer. It is the argumentative technique of a child. Or a Media Ecologist... just sayin'...
Media Ecology. Hmmm. Sounds like a made-up profession. Would a sub-division of that skill set be Television Fishery Management? Perhaps Radio Forrestry? Journalistic Hydrology?
I found your blog because my blog was visited by USAIC-CECOM and I wondered who that might have been. I googled them, as you did, and found your rather paranoid rant about your blog locking up. I see that it has recovered nicely, and while it's good that your paranoia has gone for naught, after perusing your blog and your childish YouTube efforts, it's a shame that your fears weren't realized. It's idiots like you with made-up academic fields that I fight for.
While you are a noisy little appendage on this society, other than inane entertainment value, what do you really provide for anyone? Obviously, someone pays you to perform your feats of media ecology; but what benefit you have to society, other than to purvey your asinine political bent, I have no idea.
My field is Anthropological Advertising.
May you live forever.
Thank you for your highly intellectual comments and your valuable lessons in satire. I've learned so much.
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