If you’re not us, you’re against us
Is the motto of the Bush White House, as Avedon Carol explains:
The message from the White House to almost everyone has been that it really doesn’t matter if we are “with them or against them,” since, if we are not actually Them, they are against us.
All of us. It doesn’t matter what country we are from or even if we are Republicans who ardently support Bush. If we are not actually among their wealthy, powerful cronies, they will happily take everything we have and leave us bombed-out, destitute, whatever strikes their whims. We are spiders whose legs they can pull off for fun, frogs they can torture, toy soldiers to send off into pointless wars, little pockets of money and property to be plundered for their own purposes. They don’t care what happens to us – any of us. In fact, it’s fun for them to stick it to us. I’m not even sure they think it’s more fun to stick it to their opponents than it is to betray the trust of their supporters.