Simple Simon: An answer would be nice

by Maxim Saturday, Mar. 29, 2003 at 7:40 AM

Some questions for you and your friends so that I can get to know you better.

First:

Governor Bush is not President of the United States. He and all his people are there illegally and they should be yanked from power and imprisoned.

Second:

Most of us (I'll limit it to those whom you are attacking) recognize that our system is corrupt to the core. We've always lived in a plutocracy/kleptocracy. We've been lied to from the very beginning. So this is not about Conservative or Liberal, Democrat or Republican. Bush is a scumbag. Clinton was a scumbag. They are merely whores to the moneyed interests.

Now, just for the sake of curiosity, let me ask you a question?

Why do you trust your government so much? Chances are you didn't trust Clinton one iota, right? So what makes Bush any better? Is it merely party affiliation? What is it? Is it merely an issue of faith, the benefit of the doubt? Is it that hard for you to consider that your government, or the current ruling administration is not the well-meaning, benevolent entity you think it is? Please tell me the reason for your loyalty? And don't tell me it's because you're a patriot. You were a patriot when you hated Clinton, like so many others on the right. Back then dissent was a good thing. It would have been unpatriotic, to say the least, to blindly follow Clinton, would it? So what is it with Bush? It seems to me that you would have learned something from Clinton. But you don't question Bush. Why is that? It's almost as if the second coming of Christ has already happened and George W. Bush is Him, in all His ever-loving glory and mercy. Please tell me what it is.

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