Ideologue

As if he is trying to make me happy, Fareed Zakaria writes an article for Newsweek’s May 29 issue that I agree completely. He does not call Chaney an ideologue but the Chaney described in the article is exactly that of an ideologue—he tries to impose an ideology on others with total disregard of their wishes and well-beings. It is not only on democracy that the present U.S. administration is behaving this way. Their blind faith in tax cut as the economic cure-all, for example, is just another example. There is no reasoning, no argument, no explanation on anything they do. Election will solve all the problem in Iraq, they say. It is stated and stated again, but there is no explanation as to why that is the case. When it comes to tax breaks, Reaganomics as least had a ‘trickle down theory,’ however laughable that is (who wants to be at the receiving end waiting and waiting for a trickle, unless that is your fetish?). This administration states the cause and effect as a matter beyond dispute, a matter of religious truth. The consequence is as Zakaria writes that the U.S. is losing all credibility and good wills around the world.