That’s a bumper sticker I saw yesterday, and how apt to read it as this NSA thing breaks in the MSM. Even they can’t avoid it now. If it were just this, it would be bad enough. But it’s this and everything else. The enormity of what this administration has done is beyond our fathoming. And what we know, you can be sure is only a fraction of what there is to know.
The frogs in boiling water metaphor also seems apt. It’s the only way to account for how we have put up with so much now for so long. But I will still have hope so long as the the information infrastructure is still not controlled by these thugs. Isn’t that the point of the NSA going after the phone records–to set the precedent that nothing is inviolable, that there is no such thing as privacy anymore? That the Orwellian nightmare that I and so many others have been warning about is not some paranoid rant. Does the whole business of net neutrality come into clearer perspective in light of this NSA scandal?
In a crony capitalist system, compliant corporate execs, like those at ATT and Verizon, work hand in hand with Big Brother in one big, happy, corrupt system. (Hats off to Qwest for resisting.) The MSM–TV and newspapers, are well on their way to being co-opted into this crony system. The next step is telecommunications, and then, finally, the Internet. Oh, but wait, the Internet can’t be controlled unless it’s owned by the corporations. So gotto find a way to remedy that. Do you see what’s at stake here?
These are bad guys. I know for some it’s hard to face; I know for some it’s hard to countenance the idea that the Democrats, for all their flaws, would have been a better choice. I know that they don’t represent the cultural values of many honest, decent Americans. I know that the Dems hove worked pretty hard to alienate you.
But at least they respect the law, and for everything you didn’t like about Clinton, and I’m there with you, hardly anybody associated with that administration was convicted of any crimes, especially compared to the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush administrations. And God knows it wasn’t for the GOP’s lack of trying. The party of law and order could care less about the law–they only care about dominating the system in such a way as to allow them to do as they please.
(Along these lines it’s interesting that a new MSM meme, is that if the Dems win the house, they will begin investigations whose sole purpose will be politically motivated payback. Notice how such a meme sets the stage to inoculate GOP malfeasants from actually having done anything wrong. Or how about Chris Wallace uses the national security card (with its implicit accusation of treason) in this question he poses to Sen. Schumer concerning investigations into the NSA wiretapping business: "Senator Schumer, we’re in the middle of a war. We have an enemy that doesn’t play by any rules. Do you really want to limit the president’s ability to protect Americans? " Is there anybody out there still buying blatant propaganda? You betcha.)
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. The GOP is dominated by wolves in grandma’s clothing. They’re con men. They say what you want to hear, and then do what they want believing they won’t be caught because for them the American people are so stupid and compliant that they’ll keep believing the lies, and even if the lies come to light, they dominate the power system and so nothing can be done about it. Think about it: for all that has come to light, what so far has been done about it? We have some indictments, but have the policies changed? Has the momentum been slowed? Did it affect, for instance, the vote on extending tax breaks for the wealthy this week?
Does it matter that Bush’s approval ratings are dipping below 30%? It might if it affects the midterm elections. I know that in some national polls the abstract Democrat beats the abstract Republican, but next fall abstract candidates won’t be running–incumbents will be running against challengers. I know there are lots of decent republicans, but they are not running the
show, and if they are in congress, they haven’t stood up strongly
enough to the corrupt thugs. None who consistently voted party line deserve re-election. Will the American electorate be savvy enough to understand that when they go into the voting booth? Will they understand that the only way to control Bush is to take the Congress away from him? I’m sorry, but I can’t seem to get my hopes up about that.
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