Chasing the Wind

Dr. Sanity shines a spotlight on Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Ok, before I go further, I know I’ve had harsh words for Bush the last couple of weeks. The difference is that I’m critical of Bush for not holding to the conservative values that got him elected. The Left hates Bush for things Bush does, things Bush doesn’t do, and even things completely unrelated to Bush. They just hate him. Here’s an except from Dr. Sanity:

The psychology of some of the Bush Haters is pretty cut and dried. They hate Bush because he stands between them and the implementation of their collectivist “utopian” vision. I have no time to waste on them, except to note that their intentions are deliberately and decidedly malevolent toward this country. They want it to fail at anything and everything it does and they openly cheer for the barbarians at the gate.

They are indistinguishable from the barbarians we are actively fighting, with the only difference being that they have different ideas about which group of thugs will be in charge of the “utopia”. They prefer themselves–a more secularly-oriented set of thugs–to rule.

After 9/11, in many cases, even a mild dislike of “W” rapidly morphed into the ferocious Bush hatred we are now all familiar with. The opposition to a conservative Republican; and reasonable disagreement with his policies became a swooning hysteria; and an unmitigated, deranged hatred with all the accompanying paranoid delusions.

The number of things that Bush has been blamed for in this world since 9/11 (even acts of God like Tsunamis, hurricanes and other natural disasters) is the stuff of major comedy. You name the horrible event, and he is identified as the etiologic agent.

He is blamed when he does something (anything) and he is blamed when he does nothing. He is blamed for things that ocurred even before he was President, as well as everything that has happened since. He is blamed for things he says; and for things he doesn’t say.

What makes Bush Hatred completely insane however, is the almost delusional degree of unremitting certitude of Bush’s evil; while simultaneously believing that the TRUE perpetrators of evil in the world are somehow good and decent human beings with the world’s intersts at heart.

This psychological defense mechanism is referred to as “displacement”.

The rest of the article is fabulous. I found the link through Brutally Honest, and Power Line.