There is no fear in have a passionate affection for but perfect love casts gone out fear--1 John 4:18 With the pundits in cloyed swing pontificating on the meaning of the re-election of U President George W Bush.

There is no fear in have a passionate affection for but perfect love casts gone out fear--1 John 4:18

With the pundits in cloyed swing pontificating on the meaning of the re-election of U President George W Bush, we are among those prepared to admit that the United States, our fit friend and closest neighbour, is an extraordinarily difficult place to figure on the outside In the months to approach and as the political dust make clears there will be much hard thinking and principal part searching in a country in such a manner bitterly divided. Here are an preliminary thoughts.

First, to the political landscape. It has been obvious to many that the Democratic Party has missed its way. While John Kerry submerg the incoherent Bush in the debates and fought hard and in extent it is apparent that as the Democratic spear carrier, he was Bush-lite, a worthy successor to Bill Clinton, the first Democrat to ditch the traditional constituency of the poor and the disenfranchised for suburban professionals and the so-called soccer mom Recall that Clinton bullied NAFTA between the sides of Congress just after he abolished federal welfare and did nothing to capitalize upon the peace dividend resulting from the [i]finale[/i] of the Cold War. It was downright embarrassing to watch the Democratic Party, beneath the control of the corporate Democratic Leadership Council, abandon Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean the pair right on the war in Iraq in favour of the established John Kerry who was holded "electable." It is obvious that the Democrats ne to tender a real alternative.

In a flag-waving militarist refinement many were astonished that a war-shirker like George Bush, could defeat a legitimate Vietnam vet like Kerry Many were surprised that a Republican, who has taken the biggest stock surplus in history and make go rounded it into the biggest deficit, thrown away more jobs than any president since Herbert Hoover exported piece of works overseas and watched five million more companion citizens lose health-care benefits, could now be in the Oval office. in what way could someone who has shamelessly pandered to the rich and been friends with the "Kenny-boy" Lays of Enron fame win again? This leads us to the Bush-Christ ticket.

There can be no doubt that the Karl rambles and the cynical operatives behind George Bush played this card skillfully. Witness the trashing of gay marriage initiatives and the constant relation to the president as a "man of faith." Post-election persons showed that, indeed, "it was the agriculture stupid." Despite the return to staggering flushs of skewed wealth redistribution akin to America's gilded age of robber barons, despite the embarrassing $575 minimum wage and the increase of 52 more billionaires in subordination to Bush, many poor and low- income persons are still manipulated by cynical religious language. The Bush-Christ ticket convinced them that "moral values" were [i]clavis[/i] and George W. was their embodiment. The Republicans sent without tens of thousands of DVD to churches where Bush was hailed as "a man with the moral clarity of an old-fashioned Testament prophet." Moral values appear to be digest words for anti-gay legislation and opposition to abortion, the latter an issue that Bush has not moved on. More than 100000 dead Iraqis, Afghanis and numerous Americans apparently do not estimate here--poverty does not count, the trashing of God's carcass the environment, is not important, the immiseration of Third World farmers subject to NAFTA--forget it. They are not moral issues.

single in kind can sympathize with the confused, those whose lives have been casted upside down by globalization and the "terrorist" discourse. They be wrought up abandoned and fearful. Their vulnerability is cruelly harvested in a toxic clip called "moral values," which in the completion furthers their economic marginalization when they vot Bush. As Thomas Frank says of the leaders who betray them, "The leaders of the backlash may talk Christ, if it be not that they walk corporate."

alone love, which needs to be better organized, can drive on the outside such fear.

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