A GAME THAT HURTS
Their chains of iniquity
are forged from the darkness
of their souls, a tyrant’s mandate
hurriedly scribbled
illegibly on a comet’s tail,
as it streaks across
time’s cavernous ceiling;
the aching hours
viscously torn
into the open wound of the sky:
hurts.
Never a consultation,
though desperately needed
particularly from disparate dissenting opinions,
in order to better comprehend
before precipitously plunging
into the gaping black abyss:
which is the new world.
Gone are the old ways,
with their due deliberation
that proceeded slowly and cautiously;
and, which studied something
from all perspectives,
least some irrevocable harm should transpire;
when we understood
that societies had solid reasons,
for democratically organizing things as they had:
and, that haste truly does make waste,
which leads to mistakes that tend to benefit only a rich few.
There,
wrapped within
the indigents
beaten and tortured to their knees,
are the meaningless
weary roads
that are measured with their worn out,
and soon to be discarded,
bodies.
For the game theory’s players
are arrogant, and their hands hold
the only spreadsheet scorecards,
whose rules and reality
their individual ignorance
and collective stupidity
can’t comprehend;
and, blinded by pride
they can’t see,
the lemming like herd,
whose few wise individuals
can’t compensate for the programmed
ignorance of the rest.
Besides, the players are well served
by the conquering contemporary crusaders
who lead the way through today’s dark age,
they’re wage slaves
guided by self-serving popular delusions;
and, like their historical antecedents,
the miserable medieval hosts of self-flagellators,
they suffer on to the bitter end:
except for an extraordinary few,
who patiently proceed, before finally expiring,
wise in gentle, loving kindness.
THE FUTILE FOOL
Futile is the fool who climbs up on his own shoulders,
to improve their view so that they may see farther!
They are like a fruit tree whose trunk has grown rotten
and the weight of their crop causes it to list,
until it lies prostrate on the ground.
Deposit your burden in His capable hands
who can hold all with ample room to spare,
and never despair reflecting if only
you’d done this or that: live life without regrets!
Your vain desires turn off the lights
and blinded by your passions
you grope from one iniquity to another –
until, at last you become unholy:
take only that which is, either freely given,
or justly earned; and, do it
in a spirit of sacred love.
THE WORLD OF WORDS
Smiling you laugh and say, I grow worn and weary after-words,
but, I bend time, and forge fantastic forests, and build pellucid pool Heavens,
and, an emerald, ruby and sapphire adorned jewelry box
lined with indigo velvet is around me,
whispering trees and a mysterious murmuring fountain
trembles so appealingly in the park,
as the city’s myriad voices swirl joyously about me,
I charm my days
with rainbows and clouds
and translucent colors
intensified by light.
I know you.
And, to know you is to love you.
Beauty has been bountiful to you,
the soft curve of your breasts
well proportioned and curvaceous,
your form undulates to your loins,
expanding through passes
covered with timorous pubes,
then harmoniously regrouping
to re-descend sweeping to delicate feet,
which tread carefully between blossoms.
But, if I go with you, Pygmalion,
you too, who are a paradox,
are recreated with words, by me, and pain.
AN OWL CRIES
On the black branch above,
squats a great horned owl
constantly preening itself in the desultory rain.
I don’t expect the miraculous
or, even merely an omen,
like maybe a comet
exploding in the sky in my eye;
nor, analyze the flight of nocturnal birds
for examples of lateral causality,
let portentous freaks of nature
and mysterious monsters occur as they may.
All right, I only request
the occasional ambiguous singularity,
from the vast, eternally silent, nocturnal sky,
something supernatural like a séance,
if it’s not too much trouble:
maybe a vague white light,
a minor incandescent mist
might float in some dark corner or hallway,
or celestial flame visit from heaven
bestowing on some otherwise mundane moment
a largesse, a treasured significance hallowing it
and honoring the most obtuse object,
one might say bestow grace
or more wonderful still – love.
As things stand
or, more accurately, I sit
alert, for anything may happen
at any instant transforming forever
the dull, uneventful, redundant, insidious landscape;
politely skeptical, and politically enslaved;
profoundly ignorant of any whatever deistic event
may suddenly flare at my side,
I only know that an owl perches, and dolefully proclaims its presence
and seizes my senses, pulling my eyeballs up,
and magnanimously grants a brief respite from the evil iniquities
that surround me here. And, with luck’s able assistance
I might sojourn through the rest of this weary Summer season,
with its dust and dirt, heat and humidity;
and, who knows, maybe even attain a sort of peace.
Every day is filled with miracles.
You can see them, if you carefully observe
the retarded tricks of radiant reality,
the charlatan events transpiring now.
But, its morning, and the sitting begins;
while, we patiently wait
through the long dreary interval
for the angel to come, again,
and make its rare,
random decent.
AN INFINITY OF LOVE
Often high up in the mountains, beneath the towering firs’ silhouetted shadows,
I sit sadly down, in sunset’s fiery splendor;
I send my glance sweeping over the valley floor,
whose panoramic picture plays below my feet.
Here smooth as a blue silk ribbon slithers the river,
serpentine and silent, into the obscure distance;
there the city rises up and stretches its geometric sinews
out of dormant fields, where the evening star rises into the infinite blue.
At the summit of the West Hills, somber forests’ crowning foliage
waves farewell to the setting sun, who departs with a symphony of sibilant sounds;
and, among misty hosts the queen of shadows
steadily climbs, while the horizon, like memories, becomes indistinct.
Meanwhile, swelling from the city’s lacuna covered structures,
white noise erupts into the air from a thousand myriad tongues,
while a weary wanderer pauses, and, an archaic clock
looses time, mingling minutes with the day’s departing business.
But, my ambivalent soul watches the sweet departing pageantry
with apathy and an overwhelming indifference;
I gaze upon the Earth, like a grotesque misshapen shadow:
the sun of the powerful doesn’t warm the living dead.
Vainly, scanning the valley floor from South to North,
and from East to West following dawn to dusk
my eyes wander, like a phototaxic plant, over the immense expanse to cover every point;
and I say, “Because we’re not free anywhere, we’re happy nowhere.”
What are these mountains and valleys, mansions and apartments to me?
They’re futile, material objects devoid of any substantive worth;
rivers, rocks, meadows and solitary reveries so infinitely precious;
curiously, your vast domain hasn’t a single person, your whole world is empty.
Whether dawn or dusk, beginning or end, what should’ve been
a magical mystery tour, my indifferent eye drearily follows its tedious course;
what possible difference does it make to the sun, if the show goes forward or in reverse?
Is the sky somber or serene? I’ve no expectations from these oppressive days.
As I follow its fiery course with my eyes, I’m overwhelmed with the bleak emptiness
encountered everywhere; the streets are peopled by deformed herds of headless corpses.
As a sycophant I desire nothing that I see, & as a drone and extension of somebody else’s
stupid superficial passions, there’s nothing I want in this immense universe.
But, perhaps beyond the bounds of this spherical prison,
there exists alternative states that a true Sun lights up,
if I could soar above this chained earthly corpse:
would I enjoy the pleasure of earlier, happier days, I’ve never stopped dreaming about!?!
There, where I aspire to be, I’d get higher than the moon;
and, I’d find both peace and love, again;
there, I’d realize the ideal good and happiness that every free soul desires,
and, which is carefully concealed on earth today, under this state of tyranny!
Why can’t the object of my daily prayers be realized?
Why do I remain imprisoned here on earth?
I have nothing in common,
with these mentally castrated slaves!
When the rain falls from the clouds of Heaven
illuminated by Sunset, in a fiery conflagration;
when the twilight wind lifts it high above the valley and mountains,
tattered and transformed,
carry me away, into the infinity of your love!
EMBRYO
Embryo of memories, nursery of love
you who are everything to me, all that I desire
remember the ethereal beauty of our caresses,
the charm of evenings where our love warmed us like a gentle fire.
Sunset and Mt. Hood glowing like a burning coal,
parked at the Rose Gardens still warm beneath a veil where rose fragrances cling –
your soft breasts blossoming open to me: how sweet a thing your soul!
And, with the intuitions of the heart, we said such wise things.
How lovely the moon was in those tender twilights, so soft and warm,
and, the profound throbbing space, womb of everything including life and time
passing in a flood, when I leaned over you, Queen of my heart, possessor of every charm,
our breathes mingled together with the ardent smell of our young blood.
The mantle of night embraced and flowed around us,
and our twin eyes were mirrors, where we could seek each other;
I inhaled your sweet breath, which seemed so subtle and nutritious –
and, your head slept on my heart and in a jumbled pile lay our feet.
I remember those days once lived never to be forgot,
and with head held happily high, I recall our past.
Your beauty still has the power to move me, I’m still the same soul that you once met,
and, as I gaze at you I gratefully realize that your gentle, great heart tenderly loves me.
Embryo of memories, nursery of love
you who are everything to me, all that I desire…
SELF-PROCLAIMED, SADISTIC DEMONS
The Sun beneath a crepe mantel, has muted his fire.
Moon of my life, half shadow and half illumination, it’s so like him.
Systematically deprived of sleep I torturously doze. Being censored by the din,
and inserted into the servile delusions of monotonous mediocrity,
is what my mad fate has conspired.
However, even only half awake, I feel God’s love! And, surrounded by spite,
like a beautiful butterfly, who emerges from its cocoon in an alien time;
I’m forced to contend with knavish folly, which leads today’s organized crime,
and parry the hypocritical hand, which wields the cold steel and love’s its might!
Turn on the lights and exposed under glass of the display case are cruel deceit’s cheap and shoddy imitations of life, who are all prematurely brutal and cruel constructions;
watch while they try to entrap a new set of victims, with their same old vicious
seductions;
watch while prostituted and perverted children play, while people parade by in the street.
The question of the day is, who is on display? Painfully and pityingly I mourn for them!
Be what ever they choose for you, black night, or bloody Sunset;
no fiber of my aching body can ever forget what they’ve done,
“Behold the blasphemous and ignorant, self-proclaimed demons.”
They’re arrogant and blinded by pride: and, while God’s punishments are surely just:
still, I can’t help but feel sorry for them!
NIGHT SERVICE
Just before the high holy days at dusk the churches
fill with faltering footsteps and candles.
Twelve ministers peruse page by page the Psalms,
with their dirty fingers; and, later, after a sumptuous dinner,
read Proverbs verse after verse, as their grease covered lips,
murmur praise to God and revile the devil.
“Hello! Oh, excuse me, in the soft light, your face is a bouquet of blossoms,
and, you look just like my sister.” And, the young man leaned forward,
disturbing and distracting the surrounding congregation. He blinded
and deafened them with his dull, obtuse performance, of what he thought was
a hall-of-fame pick up line, which was produced by his rapier like wit.
“Flatterer!” she smiled and simpered, “How sweet, you naughty man.”
“Is that THE LITTLE FLOWERS, by Kempis your reading?” – “No, its, AN AFFAIR
TO REMEMBER.”
But, as the sermon was being presented, she discretely slipped the book beneath her Bible
and standing up from her seat, “Let’s go,” she said, “We’ve prayed enough for one day!”
And, as for me sitting outside in the park like grounds of the church beneath the open stained glass window depicting St. Michael in mortal combat. I’d of sworn I heard angels descending harmoniously from Heaven to join their melodious voices with the choir of song birds unseen in the trees.
I caught mingling among the various expensive perfumes and colognes of the congregation the sweet fragrance of roses and lily’s. And, God, in His infinite mercy, granted that after His rich performance, might glean the grain that grows free outside His door, in the wide wonderful World.
INDIFFERENT DAYS
My indifferent days blow by,
as painful as ever,
like an Autumn leaf falling
in the last moment of Summer.
Unfortunate of unfortunates,
I too have known pain,
my love and your smooth skin
waiting while each moment displaces another.
And, beneath a morally poisoned Sun
they proceed, whose divine inspired madness
compels them to try to stop the clouds.
And, if I survive
it’s because of His will,
and for the sake of innocent dreams:
we who walk down the street
against the strong flow
of decapitated traffic;
and, the rising tide of intolerance
to the port.
ON THE BANKS OF THE WILLAMETTE
August, the Sun, raising above in a blue empty sky
smites the anvil Earth and reflects back from blind windows.
The wind hot and humid bounces off every object:
trees, buildings, and a man riding over a river of softened tarmac.
A raven stands watch on telephone poles, while quarrelsome robins peck at the ground.
A tourist canoe, with its many flashing paddles working like legs,
slowly crawls along the Willamette,
as though a centipede idly wandering along a smooth green path.
Toward the West Hills two brave statues, one proud and the other dumb,
stare out at the coming of the white man, in churches, houses and stores,
endlessly repeated, carried in a procession of persecution of the Earth,
one after another, from mountain to valley, a procession of churches,
from valley to mountain, a procession of houses, one after another,
so that it appeared as if once they had sprung up one place
that they spontaneously reappeared in another, miraculously alive.
In a swirling tide of development that had swept racing past;
and, to state it succinctly, it’s the best way to the airport and out of Portland.
The labyrinth streets, forming a geometric web,
runs to the river, ending in a green ribbon with gray concrete trim.
The body departs leaving a scattered trail of footsteps
beneath wrinkled, wrinkle-free polyester pants, and tenebrous trees
which stand quietly gazing at the mysterious river’s mirror surface;
whose teeming waves are home to a vast variety of fish,
once one leaves Portland’s polluted precincts.
Intermittent water pipes indicate the way upstream,
to Dr. Mcgloughlin’s house, with a series of open mouthed o’s,
which drool into the water. A man with vision would peer
into the future and 100 years from now see varied development,
with rich townhouses mingling with upscale pubs and restaurants,
while fast moving barges silently ply the waterways; a line of barges
ques up and impatiently waits for their containers to be transferred,
to the more shallow drawing vessels that ply upstream.
Portland is a beautiful city,
specially in the soft light of mist shrouded mornings,
which aren’t discouraged by coats and hats.
The weather here more often than not becomes grim
and requires an umbrella, while its inhabitants transform into two legged turtles,
who busy themselves scurrying here and there before setting a course towards home.
On gray days where shattered images melt into mud puddles,
and people flit about detached from their shadows;
and, the few remaining poor paying jobs leave money tighter than ever,
as out sourcing reduces wages by about 75% and entraps people
into wells of poverty, which according to the unctuous power elite representative,
will go to a deserving few workers.
They are the “good” ones, who spend all of their time, either tending machines,
or at home, too tired and poor, to enjoy the bitter fruits of their labor:
in short they have no life at all, besides as productive sycophantic drones.
In a city were decaying, wet concrete walls look leprous,
while in the more prosperous suburbs and country
diamond raindrops dangle from emerald leaves,
before running away in small swirling rivulets laughing in the streets.
Scanning the propaganda with care, one encounters accounts
of the radical right being responsible for more rapes and shootings,
while carefully avoiding to mention their involvement.
Hypocritically, they belabor the grief of the family – all one can say with relief is,
“What a shame, but at least its not me!”
This verse stares back at me
not inspired by love, or an external creative current,
the dumb muse stands silent, a compelling image,
on my library wall complete with the swift current of alliterative sound.
I merely commence and words and ideas pour out in an endless torrent.
Today, I wonder, “How could I stand all those years of joy?”
“The price of the house that my dead mother paid $17,000 for one life ago,
is now around $200,000, and as mentioned, out sourcing dramatically reduces wages,
while cost push inflation erodes what remains of our lives.”
“What causes the most happiness?” “That’s easy, Freedom, it’s the foundation
on which all other blessings (from virtue to prosperity) are built.”
“Do you remember when tyranny began?” “Yes, it was Winter, we were living house poor in Tucson in a richly trimmed, complete with a spa and pool, cage;
and, the tyranny that had been surrounding us started trying to set us up.”
“Are you afraid of Death?” “No, Death is only an extension of this life.”
“What I do fear, is to be enslaved in a life with no meaning; or, to know shame!”
The universe lives a life that’s not ours to understand;
it exists in its own beautiful domain that soars
outward and inward into infinity. Now here, nowhere.
Looking out of this window, I see the indifferent houses,
with their 20 year composite roofs; you see this, too,
a gray road that leads to the wondrous World
where we were nurtured; a beautiful World
which was prematurely and arbitrarily ended.
Dawn tentatively peers over the horizon,
as clouds filter the soft gray light that pours over the mountains
and soon floods the valley with gay tumultuous colors.
A delivery truck grumbles by.
It’s a new World, we’re told. And, it’s true.
We are no longer free, even to believe!
And, while we can still choose,
its between carefully crafted choices.
The ruin on the left is reflected by the ruin on the right,
and, both are broken mirror images found flowing from the middle.
Besides, it must be true, it was on the news:
and, tyranny from the multitudinous manipulated middle
is the worst form of tyranny of all.
Portland is a beautiful place, it’s a small town grown big.
I’ve tried living in other places, but, like the salmon, I always return home.
Besides, every where you go, it’s the same old tired show.
The Willamette empties into the Columbia, which ambles expansively to the sea;
and, tugs at anchor cables of the small ocean going ships that make it this far upstream.
They are lined up in the channel below the houseboat and sailboat births,
which cover and obscure most of the available shore space.
Portland is beautiful, it spreads out in concentric circular rings of development,
which merge with the surrounding satellite communities in one large economic grid.
Curiously, each one of the suburbs is named after someplace else.
And, when you sleep, rain effaces all the city’s features;
until, on waking, everything around you is bright shining and faceless,
and mind numbingly the same….
Outside, down the now dark and apathetic street
inverted transparent cones form into receding pools of light,
while further back expressionless houses squat slumbering,
behind their blind windows, which still stare straight ahead
and reflect the dark and distorted images of everything that passes by.
Above, a few stars are still visible,
and the moon, surrounded by a ring, is more clearly visible than God.
RUMOR MILL
The opinions included in these essays are those of the Mockingbird staff.
The Negative Republican Campaign
The American public has had its attention focused all Summer, by the Republican dominated media, on the Republican Party’s negative Presidential campaign. In an effort to tarnish an American war hero’s record, the Republican’s have brought forward several individuals who claim that one of the three medals awarded to the Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Kerry is not deserved. The Democrats have brought forward the individuals who were directly involved to repudiate the false Republican allegations. What did the Republicans hope to gain by wasting so much of the American public’s valuable time, in pursuing such easily repudiated false allegations?
The Republican Party’s mission is one of damage control. The Republican’s felt that they had to give Sen. Kerry warts, because he is a legitimate war hero. When the media compares Republican Pres. Bush and his efforts to avoid the draft, and sit out the Vietnam War in the relative comfort and safety of the Texas National Guard, with Democrat Pres. Candidate Sen. Kerry’s war record, who fought in Vietnam and was wounded and decorated for heroic services rendered to his country in combat three times, obviously Bush looks bad. Who would be better qualified, and who deserves America’s trust in defending it against terrorist attack; a draft dodger like Bush, or a war hero like Sen. Kerry? And, by throwing such a large number of false claims at the public, it gave the lies an undeserved appearance of creditability; and, it guaranteed that a large amount of time would elapse and be wasted, on the Republican’s phony charges, before public attention would return to the issues, where the Republicans look terrible. It is a very expensive and difficult task to track down and interview all the people the Republican’s used in making such a large number of phony charges. Besides, there are always a certain number of people who will remember the false charges, long after the fact that all the lies have been repudiated is forgotten. Also, it meant the Democrats had to take time and money away from the legitimate Presidential campaign, in order to repudiate the Republican lies. And, it gave Republican Bush a breathing period were his horribly incompetent record wasn’t the issue.
The Republican claim that the Bush campaign isn’t involved in the smear Sen. Kerry campaign is an obvious lie. A look at the individuals, corporations and political entities involved in recruiting, funding, organizing and conducting the Republican smear Sen. Kerry campaign reveals that they are identical with the ones who are involved in running the Republican campaign to re-elect Bush. How can important participants run both events at the same time and not have the Republican Bush campaign involved? These are the individuals and entities that are essential to Bushes current Presidential campaign. The only reasonable conclusion that one can legitimately make is that not only has the Republican Party lied about the Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Kerry’s heroic war record, but the Republicans are lying about Republican Bush’s presidential campaign’s involvement, too.
The Republican lies are deliberately designed to distract the American public from Bush’s disastrous Republican record. Bush and the Republicans are responsible for afflicting America with the World’s largest National debt, a debt Bush and the Republicans deliberately created. And, the Republican Bush debt left America with absolutely nothing to show for it. In foreign affairs, the Republican Bush administration started three wars, two of which continue with no end in sight. The Republican wars constitute a form of corporate welfare, which provide a free ride for the industrial-military who are major supporters of the Republican Party. The Republican Bush administration counted on the three Republican wars, to help jump start the American economy, but they failed, and the wars started nothing but the previously mentioned National debt, which hemorrhaged an already bleeding economy. But, the biggest tragedy for America, was all of the brave young American soldiers who needlessly died, because of Republican greed and Bush’s incompetence. The fact that US foreign police is a failure has been eloquently proclaimed by the media, whose headlines read that the US is still unsafe. However, what they fail to mention is the name of the responsible party; meanwhile, the rest of the World identifies the Republican Bush lead US, as the single largest threat to World peace. In domestic issues, things are even worse, with four years of what many claim is an uninterrupted depression. Republican support of out searching jobs resulted in the job flight of over 3.3 million good paying, high quality jobs to India alone. Also, Bush and the Republican Party privately sanctioned efforts to third worldize American labor markets. All of this besides cost push inflation lead by oil prices increasing by more than 100%., and a disastrous environmental record that rolled back over a decade of solid Democratic Party lead gains. In addition to all the rest, Republican moves to privatize Medicare and Social Security created plummeting popularity at the public opinion polls, which were only surpassed in their downward trajectory by America’s falling standard of living that’s been characterized as a free fall. When placed in the context of international and national affairs its becomes easy to see how the Republicans would be tempted to bear false witness against Sen. Kerry; besides, over $300 million dollars in Republican campaign contributions is at stake. And, they represent 300 million reasons that the Republican Party and Bush have for distracting the US public, with Republican Party generated lies about the heroic war record of Sen. Kerry the Democratic Party Presidential candidate.
The negative campaign against Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Kerry was supposed to last until the fall Republican convention. Then, the Fall convention was supposed to generate enough momentum to carry the Republican incumbent Bush through the national elections. But, because of the prompt response in getting the truth to the American public, by Sen. Kerry’s Democratic team, which effectively refuted the Republican lies and kept the Democratic campaign positively focused on the issues which faced the country, while accurately contrasting them to Republican Bush administration’s ruinous record, the Republican time line strategy is failing. It seems that the Republicans don’t want to give the American public time to carefully consider the Republican Party platform. Further, it seems that the Republicans don’t want the Americans to be able to carefully compare the Republican platform and Bush’s empty campaign promises, with what the Republican economic realities are, and will probably continue to be under another Republican Bush administration. Next, it keeps the time line short after the convention for Republican Bush to create a blooper and expose to the public his profound ignorance; and, it will minimize Bush’s futile attempts to respond to any of the media’s substantive questions about the glaringly obtuse inconsistencies between the Republican’s past putrid performance and its present glowing promises. The Republican attempts to control the negative effect that Bush’s incredible ignorance and sublime stupidity have made on past occasions have included limiting subjects to be discussed and demanding that any questions for Bush must be submitted well in advance in writing. How Republican Bush can manage under those circumstances to still bungle and botch is truly amazing. And, here again we see the Republicans trying to minimizes the time Bush will have to make mistakes. It makes one wonder what the Republican power structure thinks of their man Bush, which accounts for the limited number of news conferences given by this administration. Finally, it prevents the Democrats from having enough time to adequately conveying to the American public what the differences are between the Republican Party’s exploitive policies, where government exclusively functions as a conduit from the pockets of the American public to the private accounts of a fortunate few extremely wealthy Republican individuals; and, the Democratic Party, whose superior models of inclusive government promote policies which benefit broad coalitions of diverse economic groups, in ways which develop our national resources and promotes prosperity for all classes of society. And, the short time line impairs Democratic efforts to clearly and honestly explain to the American public how the Republican Party and its bad models of government have resulted in the Republican Bush administration’s pitiful past performance.
The Republican Party
One Model of Bad Government
Rumor Mill contends that the Republican Party under the Bush administration represents a bad model of Democratic government. At this point, before proceeding further, it is most beneficial to define one’s terms. What is meant by bad verses good models of Democratic government. First, a Democratic form of government is any government whose power resides with the people, and whose power is conferred on to its political institutions by means of regularly scheduled popular elections. It is their responsibility to conduct the business of government and protect the rights of its citizens. Those who are elected conduct the affairs of government in accordance with a constitution. They are assisted in this endeavor by means of appointed officials, whose legitimacy is conferred by means of the elected representatives of the people. In America, the founding fathers recognized that the single greatest threat to our Liberty and other Civil Rights would come surreptitiously from insidious domestic elements, and historically we have tried to minimize this potential to abuse power by dividing power into the three branches of government the Executive, the Bi-carmel Legislative and the Judicial. It was recognized that attempts to abuse power would be deceitfully disguised as responses to other threats like our economic well being which occurred during the 1930’s when the US flirted with establishing a Hitler like dictatorship, or currently, under the pretense of safety from terrorist attacks. When Democratic governments are “good” its representatives are people from the people who are freely elected by the people, in order to further the interests of all of its citizens. When Democratic governments are “bad”, they no longer further the interests of all of its citizens; but rather, they only represent the interests of a powerful few, who use government to pursue policies that exclusively further their own factional interests, by exploiting the vast majority of society’s citizens. Obviously, this can never occur openly and honestly, it is always deceitfully done by covert means, with the help of corrupt adjuncts; and then, only after a period of time has elapsed, when society is conditioned to be apathetic and oppressed. The destruction of Democracy and the establishment of tyranny’s are never done but for the best of possible emotional excuses. And, tyranny can come in all variety of governmental forms, which even includes retaining Democratic facades if that proves most convenient and/or expedient to the aspiring be tyrants. Then, the will of the power elite is imposed, on what becomes a tyrannical majority, by means of manufactured consent.
The Republican government during the Bush administration represents the culmination of this process. Remember, Bush’s Republican government was never popularly elected to office. There are two characteristics of tyranny, even those which parade as a Democracy, which help to confirm whether we are correct in this contention. First, Tyranny is fearful of loosing its power, it fears even those who are close to its source and who do its bidding; and, it tries to protect itself by retaining people with limited ability, who do not pose a threat. One potential threat to tyranny’s power, in a Democratic country, would be the highest elected office in the land. If we live in a tyranny parading as Democracy, the President of the Republican Party ought to be a mediocre individual of limited ability. Arguably, the last intelligent Republican President was Richard Nixon, and he was impeached (by information leaked from right wing informants) for being a corrupt felon, after trying to act independently like a President from the pre-WWII era. In the current Republican administration exposure to George Bush Jr. by the American public has been severely limited by reducing new conferences to an unprecedented minimum. All other contacts between the Republican Bush administration and the American public are conducted under the same careful guidelines, where all topics and questions are carefully controlled. This limits and controls the verbal responses required of him, by means of requiring that all questions that are posed to the man be previously written and presented well in advance, so that Bush’s answers can be written for him; and, it gives him an opportunity to practice his responses, before presenting them carefully scripted to the public. Even so, George Bush JR.’s verbal blunders have become so legendary that entire comic strips are devoted to them. This is possible, because in spite of limited exposure to the public there is no shortage of material. This does not conclusively prove some one’s stupidity, but it doesn’t discourage that opinion either. And, while Bush has been characterized in a wide variety of ways in the course of his public career, intelligent has never been one of them. He is not alone in this regard, a quick look at the other Republican Presidents in recent history is most revealing. Obviously, they were not picked because of their intelligence or sterling qualifications. One was a retired actor who was not known for his intellect, and the other was the former head of covert government, an individual whose loyalty was held in higher regard than his brains. What public comments the current administration is credited with having made on a variety of issues makes one seriously concerned about not only the Republican President’s ignorance and stupidity; but, the intelligence of those around him, too, whose job it is to protect and prep Bush and prevent him from making a complete fool out of himself. Also, the fact that their performance has been so incredibly poor that they are held suspect, too, tends to confirm our contention about the mediocre, sycophantic character of the people that fundamentally insecure tyranny tends to surround itself. Also, the work of the Republican Bush administration’s staff has consistently been designed to further factional interests at the expense of the publics, which is characteristic of individuals who demonstrate ambition and serve tyranny. Under Democracy an ambitious individual produces things which benefit all of society, this realizes for them fame and fortune. But, under tyranny ambition becomes converted, from one which is characterized as producing products which are beneficial to all society, into one corrupted so that the ambitious staff member tends to exclusively produce things which benefit the tyrant, which of course can only occur at the expense of the public. Unfortunately, this is a common pattern of tyranny, which negatively transforms the quality of most human virtues. Second, if the Republican Bush administration is a tyranny; then, the policies developed by this administration should be primarily directed in ways which advance the financial interests of the factional right wing by means of exploitive measures. The fact that it does is true for two reasons, as previously stated the personal ambition of its adjuncts will cause this to occur, and the primary motivation of tyranny is to utilize government to advance its private interests at the public’s expense, guarantees that this will occur. It must be noted that every policy developed and every response to every issue that was made during Republican Bush’s administration has followed the previously predicted pattern of bad government, which is representative of tyranny. The Republican Bush administration’s ruinous record demonstrated that every policy developed on every issue exclusively furthered the interests of the right wing faction, which exploited the country’s natural resources at the expense of the rest of its citizens. In short all actions by Republican Bush’s administration for the last four years have served the interests of right wing faction and impaired the over all public good. Please see last months issue for a more extensive list of economic measures that without a single exception consistently confirm this pattern of economic activity that is consistent with and characteristic of tyranny. The Republican Bush administration demonstrates three characteristics of bad government representative of tyranny, first it has mediocre employees, second their employees’ ambition helps the tyrants and hurts society, and third they’ve exclusively used government as a conduit from the American public to the private accounts of a few extremely wealthy Republicans.
Under Republican Bush’s leadership the fastest growing class of the country is the working poor. There are now more people living in poverty than ever before. The nation’s distribution of wealth is basically one of a pyramid, which reflects that fact. And, in spite of the fact that the vast majority of Americans comprise the working classes, the efforts of the Republican Bush administration almost exclusively benefit the wealthy, while neglecting or injuring the working classes which constitute the rest of the country. Consider, central to Republican’s plans for the economy and key to their efforts to be re-elected is advocating more tax cuts, which greatly exacerbate the national debt problem and primarily benefit a wealthy few. The Republicans wish to tap into the immense dissatisfaction of Americans with government. They hope to use that as a means of furthering their case for tax cuts, which they claim are supposed to lead to improvements in the economy. However, as noted, the tax cuts that the Republicans propose primarily benefit a narrow few very wealthy individuals, and, besides not being fair, are not designed to effectively improve the US economy. After four years of failure, and accruing the World’s largest debt, one would think even Republicans could learn that unfair tax cuts for the benefit of a few very rich individuals don’t improve the US economy, which is stuck in the middle of a Republican created depression. It is one more of life’s many ironies that the dissatisfaction American’s feel towards government is largely the consequence of irresponsible Republican measures, which are actions that constitute mismanagement at all levels of government. Then, after the public forgets who is responsible for the poor performance of government, the Republicans play to public dissatisfaction to win re-elected. Once elected the Republicans again employ right wing factional policies, which created the public dissatisfaction in the first place; and, the pattern of bad government continues.
The Republican Bush record on programs which help poor people is disastrously bad. A brief review of issues which help the poor substantiates this fact, they include public housing, public health care, vocational training, and education. But, first, the national debt needs to be considered, because it impairs the US government’s ability to develop programs which help the poor. The biggest portion of the US debt goes to the industrial-military, where Republicans have spent over $500,000,000,000 on the three Republican started wars, and not only are the costs rising, but, with the exception of the right wing faction, the US has nothing to show for it. The money went to that portion of the right wing faction known as the industrial-military, and they comprise one important component which supports the Republican Party. The National Debt, during the uncertainty of depressions, represents secure tax free investment opportunities, for investors with large amounts of money. One negative consequence inherent in large amounts of debt is the fact that interest rates are artificially forced up, to encourage adequate money from private investors to cover the debt, which discourages investment patterns that facilitate economic recovery, and costs the US tax payers additional money who have to pay for the increased interest on the debt. And, while this hurts the over all economy, it is an economic pattern which can actually benefit the factional interests of the right wing Republicans by giving them profits on the war, providing a safe place to invest those profits tax free, and artificially elevating interests which increases the return on the national debt. Also, it makes American policy makers not have a free hand developing US policies, because of the influence exercised by those investors who have bought up and control the US debt. This leaves the country vulnerable to the influence of the investors, whose interests may not be compatible with the interests of the US. The large National Debt furthers the factional interests of right wing Republicans, at the expense of the rest of the US. Further, it means that the Republicans can falsely claim that we need to privatize valuable programs like Medicare, and Social Security, because they claim that the US is no longer able to afford them. And, once again we see Republican exploitive policies that benefit tyranny at every one else’s expense rearing its ugly little head. The Republican’s exploit the country first with the war, second with the debt, third in attacking Medicare, fourth attacking Social Security, and fifth by using debt as an excuse to not develop necessary socially responsible programs. Unfortunately, the discussion about the National Debt is rather involved and tedious, but it is necessary if one wants even a rudimentary understanding of the devious Republican actions, because its central to and influences all of their other claims.
Republican’s have made no effort to develop adequate housing for the poor. They claim that we have no money to pay for public housing. They contend that its poor people’s own fault that they don’t have adequate housing, and they don’t deserve any assistance. The Republican’s publicly state this in spite of the fact that even after working hard all of their adult lives over 50%, of the good citizens of this country, now retire without one concrete asset to show for it. How can an economic system that results in over half of its citizens not being able to afford to own a home after a life time of toil be the fault of the individual? And, the Republican Bush’s effort to make American labor markets competitive with the Third World means a Third World standard of living that will increase the above deplorable statistics about home ownership to somewhere between 75% and 80% of the American population. The process of making American labor competitive with the Third World will briefly increase profits for the factional right, but it will seriously hurt the rest of the country, which once again demonstrates an effort to further right wing goals (this time international) while exploiting the rest of the nation. It is revealing to know that over the last 25 years the Republican Party has opposed every proposal to increase minimum wage. If America’s workers are not given the means to keep up with increases in the cost of living, how can they be expected to afford the cost of essential parts of the American dream like owning your own home. And, to follow up such irresponsible and injurious action by hypocritically blaming American workers, saying that its poor people’s fault, for not being fortunate enough to own a home is unfeeling and unfair. The Republican’s take no adequate action and don’t develop adequate public housing, because it would divert money from the Republican bad model of government, which exclusively views government as a conduit from the pockets of the American people into the private accounts of a very wealthy few individuals.
Republican Bush’s Health care program is another issue where the factional interests of the right wing have taken precedence over those of the American public. Currently, under the Republican Party’s private insurance plan one million additional Americans per year lose their health insurance. During Republican Bush’s administration that means 4,000,000 people no longer have any form of health care. The US has 40 million Americans without any health insurance. Obviously, it is in the interests of the good people of this country to establish some form of nonprofit Universal Health care. However, the Republicans under Bush’s administration have attacked Medicare in an effort to bankrupt the program. They have tried to entice away from Medicare young, healthy, affluent individuals, who are low risk and profitable by providing an alternative substitute program of private care; which means their right wing factional friends in the insurance industry get a long flow of uninterrupted premiums, who in all probability will not need to avail themselves of the insurance companies’ services for many years to come. It creates a situation very favorable to the insurance industry, who get the vast majority of these peoples money for nothing for the majority of their clients’ lives. Also, it means Medicare is left with the clients who are poorer risks, which increases the financial strain on this very beneficial program. The hope of the right wing faction of the insurance industry is to eliminate all public forms of competition. This will mean everyone will have to turn to them for health insurance. The insurance industry has publicly stated, and the Republican Party has openly supported the proposal, their intention to increase the cost of insurance, while providing fewer benefits. The Republican Bush private insurance plan is the most unfair in the World. The Republican Bush plan provides the worst health care to children in the industrial World. The Republican Bush plan provides the worst health care to families in the industrial World. The Republican Bush private plan has committed over 1 million wrongful deaths in a single year and that is about average; and, they have sneakily sponsored litigation caps camouflaging them as bills designed to prevent Doctors from leaving a state and plying their trade else where. Clearly, the Republican Bush private insurance plan intends to continue providing health care which is unsafe and deliberately places patients at risk; and, they don’t want to be held financially responsible for it. The Republican Bush plan is the most expensive to operate in the World. At present, The Republican Bush private insurance plan turns away from its doors over one million people a year. Under the Republican Bush private insurance plan beginning doctors receive between 2,000 and 4,000 patients for a case load. Under this scenario the doctors can’t possibly know the patients, they have to rely on extensive expensive tests to determine what is wrong with the patients. However, the insurance companies discourage the use of tests because they’re, too, expensive and they erode profits, which is a position that the new debt ridden doctors can’t afford to challenge. In most Republican Bush private insurance plans the patient pays for expensive premiums, co-payments, prescriptions and the costs of the expensive tests. Under the Republican Bush private insurance plans if they can’t afford any of the expenses then people pay premiums for insurance that they can’t afford to use. Finally, under the Republican Bush administration private insurance plan Bush says that competition will correct all the problems. However, the health care market is shrinking towards becoming an oligopoly supplied market which is supplied by a few huge private National insurance institutions; and, that means Americans can expect less competition rather than more. The conclusion is that Republican Bush is lying to the public, and we are witnessing another example were the Republicans under Bush are trying to turn the US government into a conduit between the pockets of the American public and the private bank accounts of a few extremely wealthy Republican individuals.
The Democrat Party supports affordable Health Care for everyone. They would fully fund Medicare and Medicaid, because they understand that health care problems can plunge people into cycles of poverty which hurt not only individuals and their families but entire communities as well. By providing health care we keep people financially afloat, which means they continue contributing to the American economy as workers, and consumers, and savers who help keep America’s economy growing healthy and strong. The private insurance companies play an integral profitable part, too, as one component in an over all comprehensive plan. Further, the Democrats believe in prescription relief for our country’s Senior Citizens, because Democrats realizes that people who’ve worked hard all their lives need help when their incomes are reduced and yet experience greater health care costs, so they can quietly live out the remainder of their lives. Not as burdens on their families and communities; but, as active citizens enjoying their retirement who share their experience with the younger generations, while maintaining their independence and self-respect.
In a related insurance development, the Republican Party’s right wing factional interests who support privatized insurance plans have recently reprehensibly attacked the US, in what can best be described as an industry wide insurance scam in reverse. Consider the fact that the national insurance companies have been absorbing the wage increases of American workers for over a decade. It worked for the right wing faction like this. Each year American labor contracts were signed which froze salaries at previous existing levels, while insurance costs to businesses increased. During this period of time, the health benefits being offered actually were systematically reduced, too. This functioned to siphon off the aggregate increase of American workers real wages, and redirect them into the coffers of the right wing faction, which owned large portions of the insurance industry. Once again developing the now familiar pattern, where Republican right wing factional interests were pursued at every one else’s expense. The negative impact was to reduce consumer demand for America’s businesses’ goods and services, reduce the standard of living for significant numbers of America’s work force, reduce America’s private citizens’ savings rates, which reduced the available money supply for our private citizens and the business community, and it served to further constrict wealth. This insurance scam continues with varying degrees of success under the current Republican Bush administration.
The Republican Bush administration’s record on Education has to receive poor marks. It has been correctly stated that public education represents a poor family’s inheritance for its children. For poor families public education provides their children with a chance to improve their lot in life, through intelligently applied hard work. First, the Republican Bush administration proposed a two tiered system with publicly paid vouchers, for a select few students in the form of cash payments to private schools. The students who were thought to qualify were roughly 20% of the students, who would go to superior private schools. The private schools were going to be better because they were to receive more money and provide creative educational alternatives. Parents could pick the school of their choice. Unfortunately, the Republican’s neglected to inform the parents that the majority of children would be receiving the inferior educations which would doom them to futures chained to poor paying dead end jobs. And, the Republican Bush plan cost substantially more than the existing education systems that realized economies of scale purchasing supplies and materials. Next, the current education systems saved additional money without the smaller more expensive class sizes. Further, the current education systems saved considerable sums by not duplicating services, staffs and facilities. Also, the Republican’s didn’t talk about the cheaper teachers who weren’t certified and weren’t qualified; and, Republican Bush overlooked at least neglected to mention the fact that instruction that is private is completely unaccountable to any standards, including physical discipline, other than the private schools own. And, the Republican Bush promised benefits proved to be illusory and vanished like night mists in morning the sun, when it was observed that the supposed creative gains, to be realized by private instruction, would already have happened with over 200 years of private school and public school instructional experience to pull from, and America was saved from the considerable extra expense for the fundamentally unfair Republican Bush plan. Finally, with the Republican Bush plan the cost of the new private alternatives would result in significantly less money left for the larger established schools who had to teach 80% of the students, and the local taxes would have to increase substantially, or worse large amounts of debt, would be incurred in the Republican plan that resulted in more expensive worse educations for the majority of children who would be burdened by ignorance and poor futures because of the unfair and inferior Republican Bush plan. A departing observation should be made about the Republican Bush plan, the plan is tailored to the Republican Bush plans to make American labor compatible with the third World labor market, which means the Republican Bush plan sacrificed American children’s education and futures to help exploit the right wing factional labor needs. Second, the Republican Bush administration has made no other proposals in education, but the Republican generated National Debt has resulted in a higher education system that can not teach all of the existing qualified students. The Republican Bush administration after failing in their initial plans to exploit the country’s children, essentially ignored their educational needs for the next four years; until, there were not enough educational facilities to meet with the nation’s higher educational needs.
The Democrat Party’s Education proposals were substantially better. First, they requested that more funds be made available for all levels of education. Second, they developed a plan which requires that qualified teachers meet quantitative guidelines with periodic national tests, to guarantee that America gets value for the taxpayer’s money that is being invested in our children. And, if we aren’t we have a means of identifying it and procedures for doing something about it in a timely fashion. All of this was accomplished without extra expense, without union bashing, and without sacrificing the quality of our children’s educations and their futures, which the Republican Bush plan was willing to do in order to realize their exploitive labor model. In stark contrast, the Democratic plan enabled communities to retain strict local control of the education of their children. The Democrat plan is fair, and more cost effective, and it provides the best possible education to all of America’s students. And, anyone who wanted to have their children not participate, could always educate their own children at home. Finally, the Democrats have demonstrated greater fiscal restraint, they’ve balanced the budget and eliminated the National Debt; and, the Democrat’s greater fiscal discipline produces greater opportunities to provide our children with better education. Educations which can be cashed in on better paying skilled jobs.
The Republican Bush’s response to America’s vocational needs has been grossly inadequate. Because, the Republican’s under Bush’s administration have been so busy exploiting the country by starting three wars while cutting taxes for the rich, which resulted in creating the World’s largest National Debt; and, deliberately subsidizing the insurance industry by trying to bankrupt Medicare and Social Security, and sitting idle while the oil industry increased prices by over 100%, which created waves of cost push inflation; when all were simultaneously pursued in an orgy of greed and avarice after the right wing Republican bubble burst and stocks and other investments reevaluated their price structures, in many instances by as much as 75% less, along more rational sustainable levels, and the US experienced a down turn in the economy brought on by the negative expectations generated when the Republican’s stole the Presidency, whose corrupt and incompetent and exploitive economic policies always cause depressions at the beginning of their administrations; and, the rest of the US economy was forced to try to compete, while the cumulative-causatory-spiral of the right wing faction was expanding . The excessive rates of return created by the corruption of the right wing factional interests who dominate the Republican Party created perturbations which were felt throughout the entire economy. The other participants in the economy endeavored to cut costs and shorten economic planning, in an effort to increase their rates of return and compete for the available capitol, which was being reduced by a variety of factors including the right wing dominated insurance industry scam. The other economic players felt that they were reduced to having to drastically reduce labor costs, as being the only alternative that seemed to be available, with materials experiencing price shocks resulting from the waves of cost push inflation. This strategy, was felt most expedient, because of the intransigence of the depression and excessive nature of the perturbations. The Republican efforts that impaired American labor by trying to make it competitive with the Third World soon became inadequate, and outsourcing became the order of the day, which was politically useful to the factional right wing’s aspirations to increase their influence internationally, and expand their attempts at World domination. The Republican Bush administration became committed to out sourcing, a policy the rest of the American economy was forced to follow because of competitive pressure in their on going efforts to find successful economic survival strategies during these extremely difficult times.
The Republican Bush’s plan to out source away America’s labor problems is a profound mistake comparable in magnitude to the decision to constrict money made during the great depression. In thinking it a logical extension of Republican Party’s on going efforts to make American labor comparable to the Third World, what it did was to start large sections of American society plummeting into the abyss of Third World standards of living. The consequence on the American consumer market was devastating. After a temporary reprieve caused by consumer credit, the Republican generated depression grew increasingly more severe and extended past four years, and continues unabated with no end in sight. The huge National Debt keeps interest rates artificially high, which impairs prospects of recovery from the private sector. The right wing Republican tyrannical efforts to convert the US government into a conduit for transferring wealth from the American public to their own few private bank accounts have transformed the legitimate positive economic function of government, as a source of sustainable demand, and converted it into a negative component that is seriously exploiting the country’s economy. And, the politically expedient populist movement that helps condition society to be motivated by fear and oppressed now functions as a means to impair productivity and generates its own set of inflationary pressure. Further, and what is worse, it functions systemically as a negative circular-causetory-spiral in a negative direction that catalizes an exponentiates the Republican Party’s exploitive right wing factional policies, which negatively effects the American economy in another larger scaled circular-causetory-spiral in a negative direction. The synergistic effect of these two dynamic systems is greater than the culmination of their individual parts. This is a succinct simplification of the economic developments that currently confront the US labor market. It demonstrates why the Republican Bush plan to out source jobs, constitutes one of the most profound blunders made in the history of economics.
The Democratic Party has better met the labor needs of American society by supporting vocational training for its adults. The best way to demonstrate this is to observe the most recent efforts of the respective parties. The Republican Bush administration made one feeble attempt in four years to train adult labor. It under funded a program that gave financial aid to a small number of adults to go to college and receive any one of a variety of business degrees. The results were a complete failure, and the Republicans gave up. This is not surprising considering we were in the middle of a four year depression, and jobs in the private sector were scarce. The Republican Bush administration is committed to having workers delay retiring and continue working for as long as possible. And, their efforts to privatize Social Security, and delay worker access to the retirement program for as long as possible is consistent with that goal. The current glut of college students, where there are more candidates for college than space in college to accommodate them means that under the Republican caused depression there are more qualified educated students graduating from college than there are available jobs. Under the Republican Bush administration they were busy sending 3.3 million high skilled good paying jobs to India who were working for 80% of American salaries, while over 2 million jobs were being lost in the US. The Republican Party plan threw money away by training people to work, while exporting 3.3 million jobs at the same time; and, the Republicans while exporting jobs, which were needed because the Republican depression was simultaneously eliminating jobs in the US. Further, the Republican Party encouraged people not to retire, while the US was experiencing surpluses of existing graduates, the majority of whom were either underemployed or unemployed. Obviously, the Republican Bush administration’s behavior doomed the vocational program to failure. And, on the surface, it presents the picture of the Republican Party wasting money, by engaging in mutually conflicting programs. However, the Republican Bush plan was politically expedient, because during a depression that it was responsible for, it had to do something. The combined effect of what seems to be conflicting Republican plans actually guarantees lower wages and a surplus of labor for its faction right wing interests. And, it should reduce the cost of labor towards the previously stated goal of the Third World levels, which must reduce the standard of living for Americans to the same third World levels, too. The interests of the right wing faction who support the Republican Party is being pursued by exploiting the vast majority of American citizens. Contradistinctively, the Democratic Party’s last effort genuinely tried to help. The Democrats initiated a three tiered program. First, it guaranteed that Social Security was fully funded for the foreseeable future, which meant a certain number of jobs would continue to open up on a regular basis, and the economy would be helped by consumer demand, which would continue unabated. Second, student loans continued to be available and without the depression and accompanying out sourcing there was the real prospect of good jobs at good salaries, for those deserving individuals who completed their course of studies. This was a wise investment by the Democrat Party, because it meant more productive employees who were better paid and it meant solid citizens and stable communities, which generated more revenues for government programs which benefited the people. The pay off for business was that it provided a healthy and prosperous economy, which provided business with greater opportunities, not less like the exploitive tyrannical policies of the Republican Bush administration. Third, it provided tax relief programs, as incentives for businesses to develop facilities in certain targeted areas to provide relief for both the urban and rural poor. The Democratic Party’s comprehensive package provided substantial relief, which benefited all America. The Republican Bush plan duplicitously developed surplus labor potential, which it then exploited, in the now familiar pattern that turns government into a conduit from the pockets of the vast majority of the American public into the private bank accounts of a wealthy few.
In the beginning it was hoped that the scope of this essay would include the majority of issues that directly effect the working classes of America and irrefutably prove by concrete examples that the Republican Party and the Republican Bush administration demonstrate the bad models of government that are inherent in tyranny. And, while not every issue relevant to the majority of America’s hard working citizens has been given, enough examples (housing, health care, education and jobs) of essential issues have been developed and discussed, to prove this essay’s major premise. One can easily pick and analyze a variety of other issues, which may be personally gratifying, or of interest to serious students of political science and economics; but, the result would always be the same, and it would be an example of overkill for the purpose and scope of this essay. If one is interested in a critical examination of the Republican Bush’s administrations record on other related issues please read the preceding issue. In conclusion, the Republican Party’s Bush administration has produced a pattern of government, which is consistent with antecedent historical examples that consensus has justly classified as tyrannical states. The Republican Bush administration demonstrates a bad model of government.