A Washington Post political gossip blog reports on a new piece of BDS weirdness. Apparently, a Seattle artist received an invitation to participate in a White House contest for designing a Christmas ornament, of all things, and decided to turn it into an “impeach Bush” rant opportunity.
This raises again a question of what people who seem to have structured their entire emotional lives around their hatred of George W. Bush are going to do with themselves when he leaves office. Their problem is exacerbated by the lack of any politically viable Republican power in the new government. Congress is a Democratic bastion that, with luck in Georgia and a little theft in Minnesota or an election override in the Democrat-led Senate, might even be filibuster-proof. Even after eight years of a Republican White House, the courts remain at most a 50/50 liberal/conservative split and likely to turn further leftward.
This creates a problem for the BDS brigades — they need to have people to hate in order to feed their image of themselves as “telling truth to power” or “fighting for social justice” or any of the other variations on their Manichean worldview. Who are they going to hate now that they’ve totally won? Railing against the excesses of some small-town school board president that has managed to evade the edicts of the courts doesn’t seem likely to fulfill their appetites, and they can keep recycling the Sarah Palin boogeywoman over and over and over only for so long.
The psychological frustration that comes from needing to hate but lacking a suitable target might produce some entertaining stuff over the upcoming months and years.
Then again, they can always repackage President Obama as the new evil liar.
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