Don’t Hate Bush

 

We are clearly at a crossroads for our nation. To wit, this opening from a note by a friend of mine who is trying to persuade another to see the choice and take the right path. He wrote: I do not "hate" Bush, I think he and his team have constantly led us down either wrong, dangerous, or sickeningly reactionary and divisive paths. That said I genuinely believe that they are without doubt grievously rending the fabric of our time-tested and gallant, but surely not perfect, attempt at Democracy and Nationhood.

I don’t hate Bush either, but if he were an animal, he would be put down and not gently. He is rabid and has shown such from his early years. He tortured fellow students at Yale. He cheated on his military obligation. He used others and allowed others to use him, for a price. He has alienated us from the world and divided our own people to the point we can barely share a truth. He has brought our country to the brink of financial disaster and made us the target of more terrorists than we can count.

But what’s to hate? Bush represents a stage in our development -- or dissembling -- that I would generously like to consider a compost period...heat, rot and a terrible smell. We must not only hope, but work, to see that great things bloom from this murk and muck. First, we must understand it, and hatred would only blind us to the facts.

We are engaged in a mythic battle between the past and the future. We confront a mindset of politicians (of both parties), media and a large hunk of the citizenry who lack the consciousness to move us forward. They are an entropic function of nature designed to force us to the next level in our evolution.

Hatred would be a fatal distraction. We need to win by going deeper, being smarter and by convoking the best of our people to overwhelm the worst.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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