The American people are masochistic...

How else could you explain their desire to suffer pain? Try and recall the 1990's and the year 2000? Employers were begging for employees. The inflation rate was low. Gasoline prices were about 100% lower than they are now. No deficits. Huge surplus. No wars. No Americans dying in wars, although there was the USS Cole bombing at the end of Clinton's term, which neither Clinton nor Bush did anything about? Clinton did have ships off the coast of Pakistan lobbing bombs into Afghanistan trying to take out Osama bin Laden. One of the first acts of Bush was to withdraw those ships. And everything has been downhill for our country ever since. Still people voted for Bush by the millions in the last election, as if to reward him for making things so bad. Cookies and milk for making our lives miserable. What else could he do to make us like him more? Don't answer that...

to describe the situation. Unfortunately, I think the sheeple are willing to endure still more pain..."thank you, sir, may I have another"...by the time the get up from grabbing their ankles a few more times, it will be far too late

who still support Bush as being like people who are in an abusive relationship. If you think about it, that is the perfect analogy. People like that cling to their abuser no matter how bad it gets. They always believe it will get better, and defend their abuser to others who try to show them the truth about the relationship. Even when the abuser harms the children (as in the Iraqi war) the abused partner will not leave the relationship, and will continue to defend and stand by the abusive partner. It is a psychological problem. A problem of self-esteem. Of cognitive dissonance.

I thought it was a really great analogy.

Thanks for sharing. Cognitive dissonance and projection, as discussed in DU before, are a huge part of it.

*Bush impression* "Sorry baby, I didn't mean to do all those things I did these last four years. I can change, baby. You know I love you, thats why I hit you, you know that!" :evilgrin:

Here you go:

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/001662.html#001662