Andrew Sullivan weighs in on Bush:
The serenity may also come from his own fundamentalist psyche. There’s a reason fundamentalism is popular. Unlike other forms of faith, it relieves the believer of almost all responsibility for any of his doubts, it surrenders everything in a person’s psyche to God’s will, it appeases all anxiety and reassures away every question. And so, in many cases, it can be a source of great goodness, unleashing compassion and service and amazing resilience. Look at how fundamentalism created, say, the Salvation Army. But in others, it can become the constant absolution and rationalization of almost any action. It can justify torture. It can legitimize all sorts of ugly means because the motive is deemed pure … The combination of that psyche with naked political cunning is one of the most dangerous combinations there is. We are looking at a man who absolutely believes he is right; and that he has a large majority of the cards.
Ok, I lied. He was actually talking about Mahmoud Ahamadinejad, Iran’s crazy insane terrifying fundamentalist president. Uncanny, though, isn’t it?
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Yep, it’s amazing that we’ve got so many of these people running around these days. Bush and his crew (imagine: Bush impeached, President Dick Cheney????), Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Morales, and many more. How can it be bad when so many people are right? Guess we’ll find out when one of these irresistble forces meets an unmovable object, such as Bush and the Iranians…. T
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