Bush The Commie Agent?

Just yesterday I was telling my blogging pal Fester that I had been planning to write a satire for the last couple of weeks. The idea was simple - Bush and his major associates were communist agents.

The possibility offered an alternative and facile explanation of various features of the Bush Years which means that, although it is radically rightwing, it resembles in many ways the Stalinist motif as much as the Nazi one. Such as the faux-elected President as Absolute Monarch concept he has adopted; the national assembly which is routinely ignored by an unelected Politburo; the vast deficit spending - especially on military aggrandisement - while the poor get short shrift; the "big" government ethos; the corruption and graft stemming from an elitist view of natural right; civil agencies such as DHS and now the CIA run as if they were military organisations and applied to spying wholesale on the state's own citizens; the detention camps and torture; the five and six year plans - often realistic - to do anything and everything at all.

It also neatly explains why he should mortage the nation to China, supposedly one of the largest threats. It would explain why the neocons - ex-Trotskyists who still embrace a very Soviet view of dealing with the state's foreign problems - were so influential...if they weren't EX Trotskyists at all. It would explain why American prestige has been ruined by foreign adventurism and why the U.S. Army is nowadays capable of force-projection mainly against its own populace.

It would've been a good satire.

And then tonight while trawling the NewsNow aggregator for blogfodder I discovered Ariel Dorfman had beaten me to it in an article reprinted in Counterpunch.

Ah well.