Hubris Strike Where It Will

As the disastrous term of President Bush’s in office grinds to a close there is nostalgia among the Republicans for the good old days. For them Ronald Regan has been the benchmark. Remember the Time cover of March 2007 where Reagan was shown weeping? President Bush would have revived Reagan legacy if he could. But synergy of persons and events that has touched on the media savvy President is not what Bush can do with. Unlike Mr.Bush Reagan was never in control of both houses of Congress. The actor turned President didn’t even have a 9/11 that could bring all the Americans to his fold. Luckily Reagan though mediocre as a person didn’t strike too far outside his ken in such reckless fashion as Mr. Bush did. Regan merely played on the assumption that there were two superpowers and he stayed at his job without rocking the boat too hard.
The office of the American President may be the most powerful in the world but even he is subject to events and energy supplied by so many. The Republicans who believe that the government is always the problem are like an ostrich that has its head buried in the sand. Fear and smear may help the party to some extent but running an Administration or fulfilling the best interests of the nation would require something else. Being the only superpower and with so much of delusions of grandeur the Bushies believed they were safe in their ‘bubble of reality’ and they could break or make other nations in their own likeness.
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President Reagan was in a way made by the media, (and they can make a man of straw seem all powerful) and Reagan rode the raves of the Press who were searching for quotes or style than substance. The same Press missed all along the disinformation spread consistently by the Bush administration leading up to the Iraq war recently admitted their lapses. In the manner big corporations run the Press we may discount their role in making the nation come up smelling like roses.
No nation can stand impervious to the hubris of their arrogance or misrule. I read that one in eight Americans is now living below poverty line while the filthy rich are let off with tax-breaks. Synergy of the common people can break even the most powerful nation. Government is not the problem but the greed of few.
benny