A response to "An Uncertain Popularity"

[Zepp note: Every so often, I get a truly wonderful piece in reply to one of my commentaries. The one below was written in response to "An Uncertain Popularity" and casts the strange behavior of the Putsch administration in a chilling new light. Why chilling? Listen to "Summerteeth" by Wilco, and get back to me on dysfunctional relationships]

Adams45@aol.com wrote

Brian,

When I read Conversations With God, I'm always reminded that the real truth in just about anything we actually perceive as "truth"; is usually found in our overall experience; and always seems to reside, after all is said and done, in the "thought behind the thought."

I think this concept applies categorically and very succinctly to the Bush administration as well as the Republican party's two-fisted, absolute, transparently abusive, and obsessional need to control everything; from the workings of the federal judiciary, executive and legislative bodies, a woman's vagina, your bedroom habits, your sense of God and patriotism as you are free to define it, in essence, YOUR total composite life.

Not theirs, but YOURS.

Contained within that mindset is something strangely similar to the manner the Taliban uses to advance its own fundamentalist view of perverted spirituality and ongoing political agendas that reflect same on another level, and with it, their overall view of humanity.

And these American control freaks do so; not with a zeal that describes an enthusiasm and positive sense of encouragement that lifts the American human spirit, but rather simply an abusive and obsessive fixation on hate, class separation, racism, and misogyny. This is all layered in a politically lethal sandwich covered by the bread of phony patriotism; not to advancing democracy, but to seething resentment and control.

This doesn't describe the workings of a 91% proof national love affair, but something entirely different; the collective denial=projection of some very troubled people, along with the sense of self-desperation, and a general public looking for co-dependency rather than expressing mature political will.

In your prior think piece, "An Uncertain Popularity", Bush, as well as his handlers, seem to be in a desperation-driven and constant state of insecurity regardless of it's existence within a context that tells them that they are "loved" by over 90% of the American people. Strange indeed !!!!

That said, something became very clear to me after reading it. Rather than a superior base of political capital, these people have an ongoing, living nightmarish realization that regardless of how much the polls say they are the collective "best of the best", their personal truth tells them that they are not worthy of the distinction. They know that they got to where they are by lies, deceptions, vote fraud and voter disenfranchisement, and engaged in other potential criminal activities to get to where they are today. There is no "quiet knowing" with this collective bunch that comes with it the knowledge that one earns their love and respect through deeds and good intention; that earmarks character and maturity. Isn't it neat how human nature really works in a political vacuum? The need to control, lie, obfuscate, distort, abuse and manipulate characterizes not a worthy standard bearer of American political "91 proof love", but that of a group of self-absorbed adolescent pretenders who know, deeply know...that they aren't worthy of a pittance of the glory they generously embellish on themselves; while excoriate the rest of us as being misguided; all of this not to make a common spiritual connection with us, but to create the self-anointed class distinction .that legitimizes their tortured sense of national leadership.

Democracies don't live this way. Fascist [regimes], however, do.

It's like a dysfunctional love affair between an innocent girl and a control freak who knows he isn't worthy of the girl's love; and has to manufacture discontent, evil intentions on her part, and self doubt on behalf of and directed toward his mate; to mask his true self and keep from being found out for what they really are in the relationship; and eventually be left as a product of her self awareness..

The Bush administration is presently living that self-manufactured soap opera with the American public. And, as it is with every other abuser, they know that someday they will be left too. Alone with their own dysfunctions (just as the unloved, insecure and co-dependent man will be abandoned in the same fashion by the innocent girl who loved him for everything she thought he was, but he knew that he wasn't, and couldn't be let alone admit to himself), this collection of abusive, egomaniacial, super-religious and "self made political wonderboys" will be soon seen by their presently faithful and complicit flag waving "lovers" for what they really are; and in the same way self awareness leads any woman away from an abusive man.

To really "know" anything, one must truly experience something rather than observe it from a distance.or in the form of some political abstraction. And just like the girl who enabled, at her own personal peril; interaction and co-dependent complicity with a self absorbed and insecure egomaniac with nothing more on his mind than getting a good piece of ass, the American public will slowly, but surely come to understand that their present "love affair" with Mr. Bush is and has always been on that

same path. They just haven't hurt enough to finally "wake up"

But, "love was always blind".

Wasn't it?

Scott Adams