Birds of a feather.
Posted on 10/19/2017 11:11:19 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
President George W. Bush on Thursday issued a thinly veiled warning about the state of American democracy under the current president, arguing that "bigotry seems emboldened" and politics is "more vulnerable" to conspiracy theories.
Speaking at the George W. Bush Institute's "The Spirit of Liberty: At Home, in the World," a national forum in New York City, the former president warned that the trend in Western countries of moving away from democratic confidence and global engagement is seeping into American culture.
Parts of Europe, Bush said, have developed an "identity crisis" as a result of economic stagnation, youth unemployment and fears about immigration.
"America is not immune from these trends," warned Bush, who noted that public confidence in U.S. institutions has declined in recent decades and discontent has "deepened and sharpened" partisan conflicts.
"Bigotry seems emboldened. Our politics seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories," he said. "We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism."
Bush warned that the U.S. faces the return of isolationist ideology even though he said that American security is "directly threatened by the chaos and despair" of other nations around the world.
The former president listed a series of recommendations that he suggested would improve the state of democracy. First, he said that the U.S. must harden its defenses in terms of confronting cyber threats.
"The Russian government has made a project of turning Americans against each other," said Bush, who added that cyber threats should not be "downplayed or tolerated."
Bush said that there should be a projection of American leadership, the importance of active citizenship should be strengthened and trust in democratic institutions should be restored. He said that Americans should pass civic ideals onto the next generation.
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May the lot of them fall in the pit they have dug for the rest of us and that sooner than later.
Lord, God Almighty--Yehovah, According to your priorities, preferences and chosen methods--PLEASE remove the following wicked creatures from the world stage and at least from access to media:
--Shrillery
--Puh-Lousey
--Kissarsinger
--RINO Graham
--McPain
--Soros
--Billdo Klintoon
--Feinstein
--all the Socialist/Communist supermouths routinely spewing delusional idiocies
--all the other corrupt, traitorous RINO's.
--all the corrupt traitorous media talking heads and admin
--all the other Commie, globalist traitors Chuck Norris would love to get a very effective grip on or kick to.
This from the man whose family has a camp they maintain at the Bohemian Grove.
Thank you George Bush for once again drawing a crystal-clear connection between RINOs and the Deep State.
No go away.
Not a word when the Left invoked racism for political gain during Obama’s term
Obama said, “The legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination in almost every institution of our lives, you know, that casts a long shadow, and that’s still part of our DNA that’s passed on.”...
In almost EVERY institution and in our DNA that is PASSED on as in science that cannot be changed.
The narrative continues.
yep
anti male bigotry, anti white bigotry, anti christian, anti patriot, anti gun owner and anti conservative bigotry have ALL been emboldened by the left !
This drunken moron should go back to making his stupid drawings and leave governing to true men and leaders, like President Donald J. Trump.
But he never noticed the racism emboldened by Obama. Oh that’s right, only white people can be bigoted I forgot.
Had he said that he tried his best to defeat Trump because he thought his brother would be a better president but now that Trump has reduced unemployment to the lowest in 44 years, that the stock market loves Trump, that Trump has got China to agree to stop NKorea’s nuclear program, and listed a few more, like cleaning up the mess in Iraq; that he will now support our president in every way because he has shown that he knows what he is doing.
Instead he sounds like a cat at a cat card party......”You know I just love Mary, but have you heard about her and Tom?’
An ex-president that sounds like a cat at the card party! Disgusting.
I don’t know where to start with W.
All I can say is that he is finally exposing himself and the rest of the establishment for what they truly, truly are. They are no more than the moderate to slightly liberal wing of the DEMOCRAT party. How dare this clown use the tactics of the left, namely, to call anyone who disagree with his world view a bigot. How dare he spit on the voters, whose votes he eagerly accepted by the way, who were the only one’s who defended him while he was being savaged by the left. Not only were they savaged by the left but these forgotten men and women of this country were left behind by his globalist policies. Of course, he was all too happy to call on many of them to DIE for HIS war in Iraq.
W is a special kind of useful idiot. He did nothing to defend himself from the left’s onslaught while he was in the White House. Yet, now he has no problem in attacking a GOP president. Anyway, someone not offering a defense is guilty by default. Therefore:
Mr. Bush, you lied and sent us to a phony war in Iraq. The blood of American soldiers is on your hands. The left said so and you and Mr. Rove did not refute it.
Oh, and could it be you sent us into war because you hate brown, arabic people. After all, the left said you were a bigot. You therefore are a bigot.
Mr. Bush, you support dragging black youths behind cars and burning churches. you sir are a white supremacist. The left said so and you just stood there and took it. Again, guilt by default.
Mr. Bush, you denied African American people the right to vote. The left said so and you did not counter it in anyway. You must agree.
Mr. Bush, you could have cared the less about New Orleans because black people live there. You sir are a bigot.
Oh yeah, the left also says that you failed to get Osama Bin Laden. Did you let him go purposefully?
I give you George W. Bush ladies and gentlemen. But never fear, he will be back courting your votes the second another Bush runs for statewide or national office.
It’s amazing how well this man can speak when he actually believes what he’s saying. Not that that’s a good thing, he believes a load of globalist BS. But he sure can talk purty when he wants to.
Me too but he was always the lesser of two evils: Al Gore and John Kerry.
Fake news. Made up.
Bush did not say under Trump.
Go away W! You had so much to say during and after your tenure. NOT!! Now you come out just because President Trump kicked the shit out of your worthless brother! Please go away!!!
He kisses the criminal Clintons asses too.
Advice from the dumbest president in history.
Three votes I regret. W and McCain. Then I remember I didn’t vote for either one. I voted against Kerry and Obama.
Read between the lines.
And Gore.
And Romney.
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