The lesser evil, y'know...

The Democrats and other liberal kneelers didn't hate what George Bush did. They hated George Bush. They didn't so much despise the wars, the encroachments on civil liberties, the torture and the torture network, the abortion and science restrictions, the theft of the remaining shreds of the commons, the entrenchment of corporate behemoths as they loathed who went about making it possible.

Think of a  "hallowed principle" these kneelers won't compromise, when their princes hold the bulk of the thrones, and please get back to me if I've erred.

I can think of countless people less easy to hate than George Bush, Dick Cheney and the rest of the gang of looters who followed Bill Clinton, and improved upon his smarmy, less overt corporatization of the Republic.

Not a difficult emotional state at which to arrive, honestly. Pity or hatred, calumny or condemnation, Poppet George earned it all.

But, the differences between Barack Jesus Reagan and the Poppet's followers come down not to ideas,*  so much as temperament and personality. Some people loyal up for the testosterone warrior alphas. Some people get their beta validation from serving the seducer alpha.

Liberals and conservatives belong to the same social order. Members of both groups rather broadly accept that people with guns and offices ought to tell the rest of us what to do, for our own good of course. Sure, they disagree about the against whom, and even the cui bono, now and again.

But neither segment of the voting public takes any significant, notable umbrage with voting for people to rule. Or, the fact that the same class of people ends up ruling us, time and time and time again.

When it fleshes out that Barack Jesus Reagan, McPalin, Clinton, Original White Reagan, Poppy and Poppet Bush all pretty much aim for the same ends, no one ought pretend surprise.

And when it also follows that the current crop of licensed sycophants (yes, you JournoListians, et al) jumps to defend Barack Jesus Reagan for the exact same shit, when previously done by Poppet Bush, that they leveled their moraline ire (and made their fame and fortunes) against, perhaps we who walked away ought ponder how this all can change?

Today, lesser evilism in the age of Barack Jesus Reagan has lost it's last fragile underpinning. At least as I see it, you probably cannot find a more McPalin position that "Drill, Baby, Drill!"

So, what's the difference between the War Hero and the Constitutional Scholar?

The batch of sycophants, shills and kneelers defending the decisions of those with power.

I don't know if this means that the ground is ripe for more walking away. I still have a lot of thinking and learning to do, about this subject.

 I do know that this confirms for me, yet again, that walking away from all that adds up to the best decision I've made in a very long time.

* -  Except as hollowed out campaign slogans, and Barack Jesus Reagan pretty much dispensed with all that, in lieu of the perpetual chanting of two one word slogans, and a three word anodyne for the rigors and pains of tempered, original thought.