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Why
do Americans just LOVE getting sucker-punched by George Bush?
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BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by
Jane Stillwater
Recently I went on a tour bus with a bunch of senior citizens. This trip was
a pivotal point in my political education! All I did was mention...that I thought
George Bush had stolen the 2000 election and...Holy cow! Sixteen irate little
old ladies immediately attacked me with umbrellas! Were it not for my daughter
Ashley's quick thinking, I would not even be here to tell the tale.
Americans just seem to LOVE getting sucker-punched by George Bush. Cite unemployment
statistics to them? Line up facts about Bush's close alliances with, say, the
bin Ladin family or Enron? THEY ARE NOT INTERESTED!
I double-dog dare you to drive across Texas with a bumper sticker that says "Bush
lied, our soldiers died." At the very least, you would get your tires slashed.
Walk into almost any church in America and casually mention that perhaps Christ
actually believed all that nonsense about "Thou shalt not kill" and/or
that Bush might be exhibiting a tad too much blood-lust to be a good Christian
and Boy howdy. You will be in Deep Dog Dookie.
Just go to any unemployment office in the nation and attempt to tell the poor
jobless souls there that Bush's outsourcing policies have cost American workers
over three million jobs in the last three years. Not a good idea!
Or try telling your Great Uncle Henry that Bush might have blown it on 9-11 by
not scrambling our air defenses until over TWO HOURS after the first jet was
hijacked. Your Great Uncle Henry will not only stop speaking to you forever,
HE WILL WRITE YOU OUT OF HIS WILL!
Or go to a PTA meeting in California's central valley and mention that educational
funding has been cut so drastically that EVERY child has been left behind. You'll
be sitting in the corner with a dunce cap on before you can even recite the Pledge
of Allegiance!
Or check out one of those spit-shined, buzz-cut American military men who fought
the Vietnam war from an armchair in front of his TV set. With this guy, if you
so much as even HINT that idealistic young American soldiers are dying in Iraq
because Bush told 237 documented lies, John Wayne, Jr. here will pull out his
1967
Army-issue side arm and shoot you. "You don't like it here then go move
to Cuba you unpatriotic bitch!" he will crow over your bleeding corpse.
Just try explaining to Captain America here that all you were trying to do was
protect our valiant enlisted men and women from Bush's motley crew of con-artists,
hustlers and pimps. Nope. Forget it. Bush is God.
Why is it that whenever I point out to people that Bush does NOT have America's
interests at heart, they look at me like I'm some nasty little bug? "America
is NOT a superpower," I tell them. "The only superpower in the world
today is George Bush. True Americans like you and me are just being used -- systematically
hooked and gutted like trout on a fish farm. Do you think that Bush controls
our freedom, our education, our jobs, our personal life and our oil because he
LIKES us?" Then, after finishing this cute little speech, I run like hell.
Try telling Americans that corporations are not persons -- and even if they were,
they need to stop playing Lex Luther and act morally like everybody else. Go
ahead. Just tell that to your average dot-commer whose job is now in New Delhi.
You will NEVER get asked to the prom.
Why do Americans just LOVE getting sucker-punched by George Bush? George Bush
just keeps hitting us again and again -- right where we live: In our homes, in
our hearts and in our pocketbooks. Yet Americans still keep passionately lining
up to get hit again. Over and over and over again -- like so many bowling pins.
If anyone can figure out this phenomenon, PLEASE let me know! Americans need
to stop playing Queen of Denial. It's time for us all to stop letting Bush and
his billionaire friends destroy the country we love.
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