A Pattern of Hate
I was just thinking over the weekend that there is an amusing pattern in the way Bush feels about people at different ages. He absolutely loves non-viable precursors of human life that could be used to save other lives (i.e. banning stem cell research using discarded embryos). He wants to prevent kids from being healthy (i.e. he vetoed SCHIP). He sends young adults off to die for inappropriate reasons (i.e. Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran(?)). He more directly likes to kill adults (i.e. record executions in his term as governor of Texas). And finally, he’s just plain sadistic in his attempts to confuse the elderly to death (i.e. his insanely complicated modifications to Medicare).
Of course he thinks of these things in more grandiose terms: religion, complete privatization of government, world domination, black & white justice (metaphorically and literally). But it’s kind of interesting how such “higher” views can lead to such a pattern of hatred for one’s own species. Maybe I should write a book called “A People’s History of the Bush Administration’s Policies”. 