Red Whacker wrote:
The problem with your particular view, is that it's set from an ideological standpoint and not that of a what works.
The problem with critics of the Bush Administration is that they proceed on a series of caricatures of Bush and his team, rather than who they are and what they do. The critics say Bush is a dummy, that he's a dupe of oil neocons, that he's a reckless cowboy, and so on. Instead, Bush has proven he is a student of history, he has studied the history of the world quite well, and cites historical lessons in various aspects of America's foreign policy through the centuries. That's the way Bush thinks, that's the way I think, and it's why I can support Israel over her enemies.
Did you know Bush got better grades in college than Al Gore? No, I bet you didn't, because that would go against the assumptions of Bush bashers. They've repeated their caricatures so many times, that they believe all of them.
Thus with each election during Bush's presidency, the left has been STUNNED to be defeated by this man they termed a simpleton and a dupe. Bush cleaned up in 2002 and 2004 because his opposition was not running against him, but on the caricature they had laughed themselves silly over.
In a microcosm, I get a small sampling of the ire the left dumps on Bush. But it's all the same pattern. Anyone who supports Bush must be uneducated, anyone who supports Bush must not have a command of historical fact, anyone who supports Bush must just be doing so in a kneejerk fashion, and not after a careful and considered examination of the situation.
I support Bush because his worldview matches mine, not the other way around. I do have an ideological standpoint, that American culture is the driving force of freedom in the world today. That American culture is superior to the cultures in the rest of the world. If not, why would the rest of the world be so desperate to leave their countries and move to America if their culture is so hot?
The hatred of Bush worldwide is merely a small facet of anti-Americanism, and it's all based on envy. America has an unemployment rate under 5%, and yes that includes all of our minorities too. Look at the countries in Europe, those who look down on America, they WISH they had such unemployment rates. America represents the best that free enterprise, capitalism, and personal freedom can achieve. Rather than "taking more than our fair share", as is the shrill claim of the Communist left, it is America that is a beacon to the rest of the world. We produce more food than we consume, and we ship it around the world. We take raw materials that no one else would buy and turn it into goods that the rest of the world wants. For this, America is blamed for "stealing" from the rest of the world, when it is America that props up the economies of the world. We did this through hard work and initiative, something apparently lacking in many third world hellholes.
There's no problem with my ideological standpoint, save that me and my country are constant irritants to those who want to remake the world into their socialist hell. And America is a constant reminder that Communism fails, socialism fails, and so are those who espouse those ideologies. America is inconvenient to the worldwide left, even as they use our riches to live comfortable lifestyles.
I wouldn't trade my ideology for anything the Communist, socialist left has to offer. I'm not a victim, and I resent any group of clowns who go through life trying to convince as many people as possible that they are victims of something or someone. Escape the cult of victimology, become a conservative. It's the party of rich people, and more importantly, those who want to be.
-Ogami
