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In reply to the discussion: Forgive me if I roll my eyes at your precious outrage about torture. [View all]True Blue Door
(2,969 posts)Once you understand that the people in command in the Bush years were psychopaths - no hyperbole, actual literal psychopaths - then the details of how they murdered and tortured people are kind of academic.
Some of us are just gentle, sheltered souls who can never really fathom that level of degenerate evil having that much official power in the United States. It's a subject of bad movies, not supposed to be reality. But it was for eight years.
All you had to do was listen to how they talked to know what they were and what they were up to.
And the switch to the Obama administration was morally night and day, but some people just can't see it - everything that irritates them is of equal significance. By implication, they belittle the magnitude of Bush's crimes by failing to put them in the proper historical context as something truly outside the normal flow of American history. The Bush years were an Interregnum of Constitutional rule, during which the republic did not exist - we were 50 states and an ad hoc monarchy ruling out of a ranch in Texas.