Inherent Incompetence of the Right

There’s another important issue raised in the Legal Fiction note below: focusing attention on the incompetence of Bush-the-individual, rather than the GOP generally. But the case can easily be made that extreme right-wingism that has taken over the Republican Party, and has succeeded in completely neutering Republicans who once claimed to be moderates, is inherently incompetent. Besides the right-wing having a blatantly flawed view of the world – the idea that the market, profit motive and competition are the amswer to absolutely everything, as well as extreme sectarian and anti-science attitudes unlike anything seen in the public sphere during our lifetimes – that powerful soundbite noted earlier just happens to capture the essence of it: How can people who despise everything about government be expected to be competent at running it? It’s not just Bush or his people – God knows, they have been criminally incompetent, and sent many thousands to death and dismembership as a result – but the whole right-wing movement that needs to be retired forever from public life.