Grand Prize for Irony
November 7th, 2005
Here are President Bush’s remarks today speaking to a Brazilian audience:
Ensuring social justice for the Americas requires choosing between two competing visions. One offers a vision of hope — it is founded on representative government, integration into the world community, and a faith in the transformative power of freedom in individual lives. The other seeks to roll back the democratic progress of the past two decades by playing to fear, pitting neighbor against neighbor — and blaming others for their own failures to provide for their people. The choices we make will determine which vision will define the Americas our children inherit –and we must make tough decisions today to ensure a better tomorrow.
Bush’s speech is intended as a jab at Castro and Chavez, but they would be the perfect wording used by a Democratic contender for Congress or the presidency announcing their candidacy. Because if anything is an absolute certainty, the first vision is not what Bush has imposed on this country or the world in even the barest sense–but the second vision Bush spoke of describes his own term in office to a tee.
Bush advocates for freedom without fairness. Such a social model allows for what he is really after: ever increasing concentration of wealth and power, in other words the same phenomina that brought societal collapse and multicentury dark ages to what was once the Western Roman Empire and Medieval Japan.
Freedom without fairness creates tyranny of the strong over the week.
Such a world is one in which Castro and Chavez simply represent a reaction from. Soc-ialism and communisms are political manifestos that scream out for fairness.
The fact that the U.S. has been able to avoid this is a function of the resilience of Common Law and New Deal policies. Had Bush’s model prevailed through the last century the United States would look alot like most banana
Republics.
So his description of his model looks to the Latin American’s an awfull lot like what they have suffered under for centuries.
He just a clueless dolt with a penchant for cruelty, barbarity and tyranny: wher might makes right. Oh, and he’s also great lier – which is why Republican’s are so endeared to him.
I think we should normalize relations w/ cuba.