Since the leader of our nation is such a disaster and causes such personal pain and discomfort, I try to avoid thinking any more of him than necessary.
However, Andrew Greeley has the courage to look at Bush and confront some obvious questions. Recently, he wondered how Bush could go along for all these years without ever admitting a mistake! It is so incredulous that I cannot tolerate my internal fury! I have to push along to some other subject.
Being a fan of Andrew Greeley, I thought about the reason Greeley cited as the possible explanation for this phenomenon, viz., his achievement of sobriety apparently without any human intervention except for Billy Graham!
While his speculation is as good as anyone else's, my notion is that this inability to admit mistakes is attributed to massive insecurity. If he were to admit a mistake, his weak ego structure would disintegrate. While most of us are accustomed to face our mistakes, attributed to the observations of spouses and the realities of the workplace, viz., things often do not work as planned, e.g., smart people marketed the Edsel!, Bush has created a structure where errors are reshaped into signs of progress and no opposition is possible (except for the discredited Democrats and media (when the media is functioning as critical observers).
If truth penetrated the system, the ego would collapse!
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