🚀 go-pugleaf

Bill Huffman wrote:
> I for one appreciate that the UK is rooting for the USA. It is nice when the
> schoolyard bully has someone that is on their side, at least from the
> bully's point of view. This is the magic of Bush in a nutchell. He's managed
> to turn the USA from the image of victim-trying-to-prevent-atrocities into
> the image of a schoolyard-bully-extorting-lunch-money.

Heh, that's about the size of it. I'd go so far as to say that the
break-up of the Soviet Union was actually a disaster for the USA.
Before that, you could all just point and say "look, they're the Evil
Empire, we must oppose them", and the rest of the world turned a blind
eye to all the destabilisation and other stuff going on elsewhere in
the world. Now there's no Evil Empire, US foreign policy is under much
greater scrutiny.

Nowadays it's unfortunate that you have such a bunch of greedy assholes
in charge, but to be fair to Dubya, the US wasn't exactly "victim
trying to prevent atrocities" when he took over. There was a gradual
decline over the preceding half century from that! Still, there are
loads of really cool americans (none of whom have voted republican in
the past 30 years).

It's uncanny how much the political situation in the UK is
approximating that in the US. Our Labour party, once a genuine force
for socialism and public good, is now indistinguishable from our
Conservative party, and as bad as the US Democrats in terms of helping
the rich more than the poor. There is really no alternative to the
right wing in either country. Big business rules, and everything else -
poor people, the environment, justice, healthcare, education - can go
to hell. 

Ho hum. Off to slash wrists, or move to Sweden.

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