The industrial revolution has flipped the bitch on evolution. The benevolent and wise are being cornered, ostracized, what a bummer! The world keeps getting dumber; insensitivity is standard and faith is being fancied over reason.
Professor Tsurumi says he remembers Mr. Bush so vividly because he was always making outrageous statements: denouncing the New Deal as socialist, calling the S.E.C. an impediment to business, referring to the civil rights movement as "socialist/communist" and declaring that "people are poor because they're lazy."