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Bushism, the more it considers and observes the future and the development of humanity quite apart from political considerations of the moment, believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace. It thus repudiates the doctrine of Pacifism -- born of a renunciation of the struggle and an act of cowardice in the face of sacrifice. War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have courage to meet it. All other trials are substitutes, which never really put men into the position where they have to make the great decision -- the alternative of life or death....
...The Bushist accepts life and loves it, knowing nothing of and despising suicide: he rather conceives of life as duty and struggle and conquest, but above all for others -- those who are at hand and those who are far distant, contemporaries, and those who will come after...
...Bushism [is] the complete opposite of…Liberal Socialism, the materialist conception of history of human civilization can be explained simply through the conflict of interests among the various social groups and by the change and development in the means and instruments of production.... Bushism, now and always, believes in holiness and in heroism; that is to say, in actions influenced by no economic motive, direct or indirect. And if the economic conception of history be denied, according to which theory men are no more than puppets, carried to and fro by the waves of chance, while the real directing forces are quite out of their control, it follows that the existence of an unchangeable and unchanging class-war is also denied - the natural progeny of the economic conception of history. And above all Bushism denies that class-war can be the preponderant force in the transformation of society....
After Socialism, Bushism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. Bushism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society; it denies that numbers alone can govern by means of a periodical consultation, and it affirms the immutable, beneficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind, which can never be permanently leveled through the mere operation of a mechanical process such as universal suffrage....
...Bushism denies, in democracy, the absur[d] conventional untruth of political equality dressed out in the garb of collective irresponsibility, and the myth of "happiness" and indefinite progress....
...even that the twentieth century was the century of Socialism, and Liberalism, it does not necessarily follow that the twenty first century must also be a century of Socialism and Liberalism and : political doctrines like Communism pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of Democratic authority...a century of Bushism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of freedom from evil doers and hence the century of the New World Order....
The foundation of Bushism is the conception of the State, its character, its duty, and its aim. The Bushist State is itself conscious and has itself a will and a personality -- thus it may be called the "ethic" State....
...The Bushist State organizes the nation, but leaves a sufficient margin of liberty to the individual; the latter is deprived of all useless and possibly harmful freedom, but retains what is essential;
...For Bushism, the growth of empire, that is to say the expansion of the nation, is an essential manifestation of vitality, and its opposite a sign of decadence. Peoples which are rising, or rising again after a period of decadence, are always imperialist; and renunciation is a sign of decay and of death. Bushism is the doctrine best adapted to represent the tendencies and the aspirations of a people, like the people of America, who are rising again after many decades of abasement and servitude to liberal ideals. But empire demands discipline, the coordination of all forces and a deeply felt sense of duty and sacrifice: this fact explains many aspects of the practical working of the Presidency, the character of many forces in the Federal Government, and the necessarily severe measures which must be taken against those who would oppose this spontaneous and inevitable movement against terrorism in the twenty first century, and would oppose it by recalling the outworn ideology of the twentieth century - repudiated wheresoever there has been the courage to undertake great experiments of social and political transformation; for never before has the nation stood more in need of authority, of direction and order. If every age has its own characteristic doctrine, there are a thousand signs which point to Bushism as the characteristic doctrine of our time. For if a doctrine must be a living thing, this is proved by the fact that Bushism has created a living faith based on the providential greatness of Amerca; and that this faith is very powerful in the minds of patriotic citizens is demonstrated by those who have suffered and died for it.
