Salvador Dali was the surrealist painter to whom distortion was means, ends and art all in one. These are Dali times, minus the art. George W. Bush is the surrealist president to whom distortion is means, ends and crime. Dali's dalliance with fascism was the harmless product of a man infatuated with schlock. Bush's dalliance with fascism is the by-product of a man who thinks being on a mission from God is not just a line in "The Blues Brothers," but an executive order from a gospel of his own discovery. Dali would have appreciated the gall of a president still pushing the hallucinogens of Sept. 11, especially this month, when the American death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan will exceed that of ground zero. Bush is just glad a third of the nation and most of Congress are still inhaling.
What Congress is inhaling, especially today's Republicans, is the very potent drug called Big-Money. It is highly addictive.
What the "drug pushers" (Bush, Republicans, et el) have been selling the American public is Fear (terrorism), another potent drug, a hallucinogen. It distorts you mind and does not let you perceive that your basic Constitutional and human rights are being violated, and that the reputation of America is being systematically damaged.
The American public needs drug-rehab, badly. As for Bush, he's too far gone; and as to today's Republican leaders, there may be a very small glimmer of hope (wait, on second thought....).
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