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everything about this is so funny
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I always thought the "they hate us for our freedoms" thing was a bit/joke from a comedian or SNL, similar to Sarah Palin's "I can see Russia from my house" stuff, I never realised that Bush Jr actually said that...
That man was deeply unserious but also incredibly evil.
At the time, everyone I knew thought him every bit the dangerous buffoon Trump is considered now. But the feeling that he was emblematic of imperial decline felt much more abstract, the overreach had just begun in earnest under him. I remember the competent libs howling "you can't DO that!" to the Patriot Act and violations of treaties and international law and watching that whole admin ride tidily into the sunset laden with dollar sign bags, secure in the knowledge that the consequences weren't even a little bit their problem.
(Most of those same libs didn't say shit when it was Clinton, Obama, or Brandon doing the same things)
Check out season 1 of Blowback for more wacky/terrifying Bush admin hijinks
Yeah I wasn't exactly politically engaged at the time (was small child) but reading works from the time, especially Alison Bechdel's Dykes to Watch Out For, was illuminating for me about how little has changed. The frustrated liberals seeing how bad the situation in the world is but utterly failing to make the connections needed to actually fight back, the derangement that set in after Bush's stolen first election, etc.
I also read a book of essays written under clinton about (basically) the coming dominance of computer technology and its many downsides and deprivations if implemented under US capitalism. Seeing clinton's "technology=progress=moral good" BS condemned and many of the more predictable outcomes of the rise of the PC/web pointed out was nice.