Scapegoating

I'd suspect that Pres Bush was successfully scapegoated by the Left and the Democratic Party operatives in no small part because Pres Bush refused to scapegoat anyone and in particular Muslims in light of the 9/11 attacks. 

Victims chosen for scapegoating are perceived as being marginal. They may be chosen because they have certain identifying marks. One of these is that they belong to a class of outsiders: they are foreigners, perhaps prisoners taken from an enemy, religious or ethnic minorities. There are also physical criteria: all sorts of disabilities, madness, any kind of physical abnormality; those who are socially inept, poor, weak, handicapped; and included in this class can be the marginal insider, those at the top of a hierarchy: kings and nobles, the rich, and other powerful groups.

Was not Pres. Bush a "marginal insider"? 

Recall also the obsessive hunger by the Left for Pres. Bush to confess mistakes and errors. Also recall the obsession with falsely accusing Pres Bush perpetrating 9/11 and killing over a million innocents in Iraq. As Thomas Michael also writes: "scapegoats are always seen by their persecutors to be guilty and deserving of death because of their supposed attack on the foundations of culture." But also be mindful that the the sexual revolution and the right to abortion on demand are at the foundation of much modern American culture, to which Pres. Bush was seen as a real threat. Charges of torture, murder of Americans in 9/11 and innocent war victims seem to be likely substitute charges for an actual fear that Pres. Bush threatened abortion on demand, perhaps?

Posted via email from kleerstreem's posterous