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08-08-2007 14:27
Bush-ite, neocon, fascist, Nazi, pro-Bus
False ad hominem abuse doesn\'t constitute sensible comment - so why do Bush-ites commonly argue this way?  
 
In EFFICIENTLY and ACCURATELY describing those supporting the general Bush line of market-only economics, invasion and occupation of other countries, global warming denial, human rights abuse, committing but strenuously ignoring or deny horrendous war crimes (ideally in ONE word as opposed to a detailed explanatory paragraph as in the detailed explanations of insurance policies), Bush-ite is probably best in terms of accuracy. 
 
Bush-ite means \"adhering to the general line of Bush\" just as Stakhanovite (entrenched in the English language for about 70 years now) means \"adhering to the general indefatigable work line of Soviet labor Hero Stakhanov and Chomsky-ite means adhering to the general Chomsky line of opposition to invasion, occupation, ethnic cleansing, human rights abuse etc. 
 
You can Google these words to confirm their widespread usage ( I have been aware of the word Stakhanovite for 5 decades!). Thus Stakhanovite yields 38,200 URLs; Bush-ite 91,200 (83,900 without the hyphen - some robots reject the buried coprological, scatological, fecal (faecal) term), chomskyite yields 63,900. 
 
OTHER TERMS often applied to Bush-ites are much less accurate and some could give offence. Thus many neocons or neoconservatives follow much of the Bush line but some major neocon CEOs (even of fossil fuel companies) who necessarily practise World\'s Best Practice Rational Risk Management recognize the dangerous reality of anthropogenic global warming. 
 
Fascist gets much closer- government by a collection of corporate interests (big business, military-industrial complex, gangster-run labor unions - hence the derivation from the Roman Senate symbol of the \"fasces\", a bundle of sticks)and of course is associated with invasion and occupation of other countries, implicit racism, warmongering, imperialism and war crimes.  
 
Ditto Nazism (with the added feature of explicit Aryan-upholding racism and anti-Semitism)- fascism and Nazism have many features in common with the Bush line (indeed Bush\'s grandfather jhelped the Nazis to power in Germany in the 1930s) but this terminology is also imprecise. The Bush-ite type people e.g. the Racist Religious Right Republicans (R4s) USED to be extremely anti-Jewish anti-Semitic but have now (at least publicly) given that obscenity away for the equally repugnant cause of anti-Arab anti-semtism (in which they find common cause with the Racist Zionists, notwithstanding their former deep hatred of all Jews). 
 
Pro-Bush is not very accurate either - thus I APPLAUD Bush\'s early action to approve money for combating arsenic in American water supplies AND his recent description of Bomber Obama\'s promise to unilaterally invade Pakistan as \"unsavoury\". 
 
No, Bush-ite wins on precedence, common English usage, accuracy and efficiency grounds for describing those following the general Bush line - and its use is certainly NOT \"immature\".
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