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[Whateverist]

How is Romney like Bush?

You are right. Their differences are more glaring than their similarities. Yet they are alike in at least two ways.

First, they do both have their secret friends, even if Romney's come from other planets. From the atheist point of view, this is a little unsettling. Of course no atheist could be elected president in the US so there is room to wonder just how near and dear they hold their superstition. There is little doubt that Bush holds religion in a shallow, literal, fundamentalist way. I'm not as certain about how important Romney's religious views are to him. Perhaps there are Mormons who come for the celestial wonder but stay for the community, but I doubt it. He is almost certainly a religious nutter.

Second, both owe their wealth and their estimation of their own worth to their families. Romney seems to have done a better job of growing that wealth than Bush, but then Bush didn't amass his wealth by sending American jobs overseas in the wholesale manner that Romney did. I only wish more Americans would contemplate how likely someone like Romney would be to understand their interests let alone his desire to represent them. Romney and Bush, like so many of the 1%, are all about justifying their wealth and holding it up as an incentive to others - even though suggesting that the economy (let alone the planet) could ever sustain a whole nation of people living as large as they do - is surely ludicrous.

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High winds do not last all morning.
Heavy rain does not last all day.
Why is this? Heaven and earth!
If heaven and earth cannot make things eternal,
how is it possible for man?

He who follows the Tao
is at one with the Tao.
He who is virtuous
experiences Virtue.
He who loses the way
is lost.
When you are at one with the Tao,
the Tao welcomes you.
When you are at one with Virtue,
the Virtue is always there.
When you are at one with loss,
the loss is experienced willingly.

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 23

I will bear this in mind, thank you .. and all the more if we end up under Romney. A very real possibility.