Addicted - To Bush 2 __top__

George W. Bush is now painting portraits of immigrants and baking cookies with Michelle Obama. He has gone to rehab. But have we?

We developed tolerance. A disastrous press conference wasn't a failure of governance; it was entertainment. The signing of the Patriot Act wasn't a legal shift; it was a plot point. The economic collapse of 2008 wasn't a tragedy; it was the season finale. addicted to bush 2

We expected the Obama era to be the methadone clinic—calm, measured, intellectual. But our dopamine receptors were fried. We had spent eight years addicted to the chaos of Bush, and normal governance felt like the flu. George W

We were addicted to the drama of the man. And now, with the benefit of hindsight, we need to examine what that addiction did to our political nervous system. Every addiction starts with a hook. For Bush, that hook was 9/11. But have we