THE MANCHURIAN IDIOT

In “The Manchurian Candidate,” the commies got their hands on a rich man’s son, inflated him into a bogus war hero and brainwashed him to fuck up American politics. In the twenty-first century version we got our own homegrown version, Bush, who is acting like a foreign agent not because he’s brainwashed – he hasn’t got a brain to wash – but because he’s such a boring dope that he has hypnotized the whole rest of the country into a flatline mental coma of imbecility.


He completely botched 9/11 and then established a police state of electronic surveillance. He completely corrupted the media and press establishment to behave like dummies. Not one reporter or editor has the nerve to say what everybody is thinking, that the president is a brainless twit. He looted the treasury with his tax breaks and then had stockbrokers and investment bankers licking their chops when he tried to do the same thing with Social Security. They figured they were going to get to steal the mother lode, people’s retirement checks. The only thing that saved Social Security was that the stealing in Washington became so blatant, with Abramoff, DeLay and Cunningham, that people finally realized they were going to get fleeced like sheep and refused to go along with Bush’s pirate-ization program.


The only thing Bush can do right is to fuck up. In that he has no equal. For a FEMA director he appointed a guy whose whole expertise in life is a horse’s ass (where is he now that Barbaro needs him?). When the flood came, instead of getting down there himself and supervising rescue efforts like the president of Indonesia did after their recent earthquake, Bush flew over New Orleans on his way to another Republican fundraiser. Now Bush’s latest appointment is a CIA director who speaks no foreign languages and whose whole expertise is in domestic electronic eavesdropping. What kind of a spy is that, who can only spy on his own people?


Anything that has to do with work, Bush avoids like the plague. Not only is he lazy, he’s incredibly stupid to the point of being proud of it. When the intelligence pointed to Arab saboteurs taking flying lessons, Bush replied, “I’m not going to waste my time swatting flies.” Later it came to pass that those flies really got into the ointment and messed things up Big Time! That’s what happens when you’re too lazy to pick up a fly swatter.


The fact that this dummy graduated from Yale says a whole lot about Yale. Like innumerable princes throughout history, Bush was born to rule not because he has brains, but because his family has got money. Any half-wit schemes he forces his subjects to endure are just tough luck – it’s the natural order of things.


The difference is, this being ostensibly a western democracy (although Republicans won’t even concede that, they’ll tell you that this is a republic and not a democracy, sort of like ancient Rome), you’re at least allowed to complain, though the people are so processed and pasteurized that they’re incapable of sizing up what’s happening to them. The consensus seems to be, I’ve got a little piece of the action, so I’m all right, Jack. That might work for some people, but this writer cannot stand to be in the company of freakin’ idiots.


If I could get my hands on some cash, I would blow out of here completely, down to Mexico or even farther, like the people in the Terminator movies, where I could wait for the whole mess to collapse. Only, unlike the movie, I wouldn’t come back. Given the Loony Tunes gang of losers in leadership positions, I feel justified in being pessimistic about the future prospects for any kind of stability. I’ll take my money in Swiss francs, thank you.


Now it turns out that John Kerrey, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, has been exposed by the Republicans as a total fraud and not a war hero at all. It’s a good thing that Bush stole the election from him. But it certainly begs the question: what about John McCain? Was he a war hero or just another poseur who is playing on the gullibility and naiveté of the electorate? Maybe the whole concept of a war hero candidate is just another marketing concept that has become so devalued as to be essentially worthless. Anybody who ships out to war on Bush’s say-so is likely to get more than he bargained for and less than he deserves. If somebody like Bush were to show me the way to the front, I would look for the way out the back.

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Posted on 5/29/2006 ( Permanent Link )
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