Tao’s 2 Cents

I was watching a clip from Politically Incorrect the other night. Bill Maher was interviewing Robert Draper, the guy who wrote the biography about George Bush called “Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush“. The guy seemed to buy a lot of what Bush says and does but was critical of his stubborness. He said that Bush seemed to be waiting on things as if a miracle were going to occur.

Normally I would just chock that up to the idea that Bush thinks he’s literally God’s gift to the U.S. of A, but I suddenly had a minor epiphany. I started thinking about Bush’s life pre-presidency. Everything was taken care of for him, and I guarantee it wasn’t always explained to him everything that was done on his behalf.

Think about it. Bush gets busted with a DUI, but suddenly it just disappears. You know papa Bush just took care of it, and junior probably just thought those idiot police mis-filed something. He takes over businesses and drives them straight into the ground, yet along comes some idiot from Saudi Arabia to buy them up anyway. Man, that was lucky. And law school…don’t even get me started on grades and such.

Of course he doesn’t think he can make a mistake. He’s never had to face the consequences from anything, so in his mind either there aren’t consequences to mistakes or he simply does everything right. As Stephen Colbert likes to joke, he just goes with his gut and he can’t be wrong.

Only now he’s in a position where no one can help him and he just keeps waiting for everything to work itself out like it always does. Just be patient, give it another 6 months, I guarantee it’ll all just work out because it always does. Except it won’t and I can see it in his eyes these days. He’s worried. His mojo is gone, and if I’m right then he is singularly the most unqualified person, perhaps in the world, to deal with cleaning up mistakes. So he goes on denying their very existence. Everything is a success. Watch this great video as he calls black, white.

It can’t end well for him or us. I only hope people will look back on these times and wonder, like we do about the Germans in Nazi Germany today, “how could they all go along with that?” Perhaps preventing a similar situation is the best we can hope for, but if humanity must make all the terrible mistakes possible in order to learn what logic already tells us, then how will we ever survive?

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