President Bush, Stop Harshing on My Mellow!
Every now and then, I come across a bumper sticker design that cuts through all the complicated arguments of the professional politicians, and reduces an issue down to an essence that people can understand and identify with on a human level. That is the case with this bumper sticker design:
Mr. Bush, Stop Harshing on My Mellow
We can talk for week after week about the irrationality of George W. Bush’s Iraq policy, the inadequacies of his economic policies, the ignorance of his science policies, the near-sightedness of his environmental policy, and the injustice of Bush’s agenda to dismantle the constitutional liberties guaranteed us under the Bill of Rights. The sad truth is that many Americans just tune out when you try to talk about the details. We need an anti-Bush shorthand, a quick way to identify the core problem with Bush’s politics.
Hey, Mr. Bush! Stop harshing on my mellow!
That is the problem, isn’t it? George W. Bush, in spite of his Republican rhetoric, believes that it’s the job of big government to be the boss of us all. We’ve got no room left for mellow under harsh President Bush.
Bush thinks it’s his job to run our country through war on little more than a hunch, to get us to work longer hours for lower wages and worse benefits. He puts us through heat waves of denial of global warming, and subjects us to the sex police if our relationships don’t fit his idea of morality. Bush gives us Big Brother government, always watching, with its Total Information Awareness and warrantless wiretaps of our telephones.
Oh, and he wants us to be afraid, afraid, afraid of the boogeyman who’s going to get us all unless we all do exactly what Bush says.
Bush needs to back off. Bush needs to stop harshing on America’s mellow.
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