“The Bushes are good people who love America (in stark contrast to Obama and the rest of the Democrats). It’s a shame they weren’t wiser.”
I agree with your statement 100%. The Bushes represent just what has happened to the American people as a whole. Sure, they’re nice, politically correct, all embracing, go along to get along Americans who turned their heads from evil in order to maintain the status quo and look where we are. Americans are so intent on keeping their little comforts and government approved goodies that they don’t and won’t stand for anything that’s going to upset the rotten apple cart.
It was people with good intentions who elected Obama to the Presidency twice. Americans with good intentions wanted the long, horrible racial nightmare that has hung over America to be over--once and for all--and they thought--or hoped--or prayed--that electing him to the Presidency would somehow end the nightmare.
It was people with good intentions who fell for the old trick that anyone who opposed Obama or any of his policies did so because of racism.
It's people with good intentions who flock to the old Marxist Bernie Sanders, buying the old snake-oil that has destroyed every nation that has drunk it and is responsible for a greater holocaust than the Nazi one: communism.
I repeat:
I worked for the US Customs and Border Control Dept of Homeland security from 2002-2004 at their HQ in the Ronald Reagan bldg in downtown DC.
At that time we understood that Bush was an open borders guy. His talk about protecting the border was just talk.
Elite opnion at the time was that the USA Canada and Mexico would merge someday to form a superstate in much the same way that the EU did in the 90’s. that the way to go about doing this was to make for a free flow of people and goods.
casualties were just a cost of doing business.
W Bush was stone dead wrong.
I think you are heading in the right direction with your evaluation. I would only add that these good people, the Bushs, did what they did for themselves and not for the American people. We need someone who will make the hard and unpopular choices.