5) The wars,
4) The imperial Presidency,
3) The national debt,
2) The Roberts/Alito court,
and the number 1 worst thing that George Bush gave to America….
Bush’s ultimate triumph was forcing the bleak, GOP worldview on our historically boisterously optimistic country.
Here is the BBC on that topic, but there are plenty of people talking about it. The GOP’s hard-on for a Mad Max outcome to history has always been laughed off by the rest of the country. Not now. We are all empty fin de cycle scarecrows guarding the burned and blasted fields of America’s broken dreams. Thanks Bush!
And while I blame the Bush crowd’s pinched, and rotten taken on the human spirit, I obviously think that President Obama has bought into enough of the GOP’s dystopian vision of our future that it welded the iron mask of weltschmerz onto our national head.
“No we can’t!” get used to it.