TheStar.com – Incurious George W. can’t grasp democracy
Incurious George W. can’t grasp democracy
RICHARD GWYN
President George W. Bush possesses some considerable liabilities. He’s not particularly bright and, as he showed by his fumbling responses in his press conference last week, he doesn’t think quickly.
He also possesses considerable assets that critics often overlook out of sheer snobbery. He is decisive and courageous. He has the invaluable quality in all leaders of stick-to-itiveness.
Bush’s most substantial liability is that he’s incurious. He isn’t interested in, and appears fundamentally unaware of, the existence of, other cultures, other countries, other ideas, and of people unlike himself — no matter whether they happen to be.
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I was just discussing this with my husband Tom last night – that not only does the Bush administration not know what or how other people think, about democracy or anything else, they really just don’t care. For me, this is the most galling thing of all about Bush and his administration, because it leads to the rest of the problems these people create. They are not open to new or different ideas, and even when they do change their minds, or relent to public pressure, they do so very unwillingly and often regress to the previous policy or ideas later after the focus on their actions changes.
The word is “sociopath”, folks – let’s start using it. Bush is a sociopath.