The Nappy Cat Chronicles

I guess every 2 or 3 decades or so, an American president becomes so incredibly unpopular, that only 1 out of 4 people who respond to polls like him enough to approve of his performance. Bush II has been such a transcendent president, I feel a bit sorry for his unpopularity. I like that he was a proud megalomaniac. Yes, he lied. Repeatedly. But you knew he was lying. If you were paying attention, fuck, if you had two ears and a semblance of a brain in-between, you knew he was feeding you pure, unadulterated bullshit. And, when called out, he would feed you even more bullshit. There was no soul searching and no obvious moments of hesitation.

Ultimately, he and Congress only gave us what we wanted. Bush II’s 25% is a reflection of how we feel about ourselves. We binged on imperialism and gorged ourselves on credit and we now a tummy ache. And Bush II was our gracious enabler. He never asked us to give up our iPods and encouraged us to buy more. We wanted blood. We got Iraq. We wanted safety. We got the Patriot Act. We wanted someone to bear responsibility for our dumbass kids. We got No Child Left Behind. We wanted to pretend that our kids are asexual. We got “abstinence only” education. We wanted no cash down. We got bailouts and stimulus checks. We wanted to forget that a serious illness means bankruptcy, we wanted to pretend that man can significantly impact everything but climate, and we wanted to fight them “over there” so we don’t fight them “here.” We got an eight year daydream which may be too real to put down.