What is most wrong about the bushgang?

[leftofthedial]

I know any one of us could list a thousand grievances. But what is the true nature of the throbbing evil that lurks at the core of this gang?

Is it lust for power? Lack of morals? Lack of respect for truth?

What is the one thing that makes them so purely malignant?

[coloradodem2005]

1. Lust for power.

THe Lack of Morals and lack of respect for the truth come with the territory of lusting for power.

[leftofthedial]

7. It is almost a supernatural force

that they can make the truth irrelevant, even when it stares all of us in the face. McClellan or Cheney or Rumsfeld or l'il george or Condi or Bowell just shrug their shoulders and say "So what?" and the truth becomes meaningless.

Reporter: But what about <the truth>?

Bushgang speaker: The President has said <a lie>.

The reporter and the public then just go on as though nothing was wrong. The lie now becomes the new truth and serves to make the next lie even easier to tell and easier to get away with.

The truth has always been a scarce commodity, but it has never been so blatantly irrelevant before.

Perhaps the ultimate example of amorality is an utter lack of respect for the truth.

[PATRICK]

2. Deep into the "unforgivable sin"

which is not a sin they would recognize since it a condition by which the truth cannot be recognized because evil is good and good is evil. Whatever else they may be guilty of, the moral blindness in such stark absolute terms separates them from everything true and good.

So other things fill the gap and those must be absolutized(fruitlessly, destructively) to replace what is with what can never be.

It is the only incurable sin or unforgivable one because of choosing to be blind or claiming absolutely they are not.

Of course finding flaws(which abound) in others helps them maintain their vain search for an alternative universe.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. "White House Residency"

[NEOBuckeye]

4. There's no one thing, but lots of things.

I think each of these people is acting on some sort of psychological insecurity complex. Dubya, for instance, seems to be all about the Oedipus complex with Poppy, loving him as a father, and yet hating him for favoring Jebby. For Cheney, there seems to be some bully-esque need to hoard more and more power for himself, while trying to instil fear in the hearts and minds of everyone else, which, of course, is born out of his own deep, personal insecurities.

I've always suspected that Wolfowitz, Perle and the PNAC neo-conservative Jews were acting out some sort of subconscious victim/vengeance/payback role against Muslims in the Middle East for how their lives and families were nearly destroyed by Hitler and the Nazis in Germany. (i.e. "The Cycle of Pain" continues.)

Rove seems like the nerdy, wussy guy who got wedgies and swirlies in high school by the football jocks, and swore to get his revenge upon them all someday, and show the world who he was. I have no clue whatsoever about Rummy, though. Maybe he's in on this just "for fun." He has a certain sadistic quality about him.

I think Tom DeLay is Hitler reincarnated. Seriously. That man represents all that is bad when government, corporations and religion combine together into a political machine. So far, he's been mostly content to pulling the strings behind the scenes, but God help us all if he ever gets anywhere near the Whitehouse. He'd make Dick Cheney look like a saint.

[leftofthedial]

5. I swear I am at a loss to articulate it

there is this throbbing pustulating abscess at the center of these people that is like a black hole in the galaxy of my entire being.

It sucks up and destroys every basic thing I value:

truth

beauty

life

peace

security

fidelity

And 40% or so of my fellow citizens cheer this evil on like zealots at a snakehandlers revival or like an Orwellian mob during the three-minute hate.

[GreenArrow]

10. yep,

they are at heart, anti-life.

[Skittles]

6. that they exist

nt

[GreenArrow]

8. their contempt

They lie blatantly because they have us in contempt. They revile us. We are like insects to them. We are means to an end, tools. They are vampires, we their prey.

By "us", I mean of course, the citizens of this country.

[terrya]

9. A loathing and contempt for the poor and middle class.

It's been nothing but a big "go fuck yourselves" to the people in this country who aren't in the top 2% economic class.