Citizen G'kar: Musings on Earth

January 03, 2006

Demonizing the Opposition

It's tempting to demonize all Republicans for all the Un-American activity going on in the White House. This Administration has done more damage to this country than any single administration that I know of from history. Bush has managed to make lying to and spying on the American people, humiliating opponents and destroying careers a common and acceptable practice in government. In the future, Americans will be left to believe what they want to believe, rather than chosing from various presentations of the facts. Bush has made little or no attempt to tell the truth about Iraq and the war on terror.
There are, however, people within the Administration who are clearly worthy of the demon label. Pretend the link to the following article refers to political strategists and specifically Kark Rove, and then it's a worthy read. A self-respecting Republican will not read this post. One is simply doing damage to the cause by demonizing Republicans enmass.
NewsHog: You don't have to a sociopath to be a [Political Strategist], but it helps.
[Karl Rove] exhibit[s] many of the behavioral characteristics of a sociopath or socialized psychopath-- such as an outstanding ability to charm and seduce followers. Since [he] appear[s] apparently normal, [he is] not easily recognizable as deviant or disturbed. Although only a trained professional can make a diagnosis, it is important to be able to recognize the personality type in order to avoid further abuse.

2 comments:

Cernig said...

One is simply doing damage to the cause by demonizing Republicans enmass.
That's why the title begins "You don't have to be..." however, in the current climate and under the current GOP leadership (Bush and his entire cabinet, Frist, DeLay, Hastert, Ney, Polombo, Cunningham), and their coterie of cheerleaders and supporters (Malkin, Abramoff, Powerline, etc) it does definitely help. I would personally love it if the non-sociopaths would give the dysfunctional wing of the GOP the cold shoulder.
Thanks for the link.
Regards, Cernig

lily said...

On the one hand we say its wrong to generalize or lump people together, but on the other hand we know that they lump themselves together in their support of one another's antics. Any one of them could call for accountability at least ONCE IN A WHILE and if they did perhaps the argument against broad characterizations would be more compelling. Fact is, they stick together behind the masterminds. I have no problem at all calling them by the same names. I will allow for the distinctions between those that *vote* Republican, some do so for 'values' that they can at least defend (as in, agree to diagree respectfully) and will readily admit that Bush and Co do not govern consistently with those 'values'... as in reckless deficit spending and intrusiveness into privacy, what we have in power now is a departure even for some republicons.