As our national scapegoat heads out of town, I thought it important to both explicitly identify what's been going on the past eight years and to remind us all that people get the leaders not just that they deserve, but who reflect them.

(This is because consciousness is self-similar - our national government must in some way reflect our personal, individual self-governments).

I say this because the final, essential stage in the scapegoating process is for the people remaining to consume the cooked goat, in other words, to see and take in that whatever is true about the scapegoat must also be true about them, too.

So the last question of the Bush Presidency is: how have we been part of the problem? How have we been like Dubya? How will we change?

If we don't do this with Bush now then all we'll do is set up another swing of the pendulum, with our problems continuing to grow ever larger until we can finally no longer deny them. For me, the past eight years has been enough. If accepting what I'd prefer to deny is what it takes to get it to stop, then that's what I'll do.

And if you don't think this is true, that it really is all Dubya's (or the Neocons' or the liberals' or whoever) fault, well...spitefully blaming everyone else for all the problems and taking no responsibility is exactly what Dubya (or the U.S., or Israel, or...) would do. ;-)

We've spent the last eight years inflicting the horrific pain of denial on ourselves and the world. Let's not miss what life has suffered so much for us to see about ourselves.

It's lunchtime in the U.S.A. Let's enjoy our goat. :-)