The intent of the far right, since the advent of Reagan, has been to hollow out our system of checks and balances, to rinse out its vitality through shadow government, and Newspeak.
Three empires have been pursued under this far right umbrella:
The empire of fundamentalism -- converting the entire world to Protestantism and making the King James Bible the only law anywhere in the world.
Rule by hatred and intolerance.
The empire of business -- capitalism, globalization, conquest through unfair advantage, monopoly and war when necessary. Rule by avarice and greed.
The empire of the New America, colossus of the planet, brooking no other nation state to even raise its head and call itself sovereign. Rule by pride and piracy.
To rule -- by getting what you want at any cost -- is the goal of every empire. None of these three empires of the far right have attempted at any time to manage, to govern, to share, to progress everybody. They seek only to progress themselves and their strange bedfellows.
Running together like three muddy rivers, self-serving and serving all three agendas, this collusion of mad souls has driven this nation to the brink of collapse.
It is probably too late to wake everyone up to this slow death of a nation before they all awake to hunger, privation and misery. We are very close now.
The ones who do not want to know even now -- even now! -- will not want to know in the days of turmoil ahead. They will just want to lash out at whomever their TV and talk radio point them to. Rush and his ilk will guide them.
So thoroughly divided is this nation, so separated out into our neighborhoods, cul-de-sacs, and cars -- each consumer living at the furthest end of a line of credit which requires repayment every month to a financial tapeworm -- that we are not neighbors, or friends, or Americans anymore.
We are scared consumers. Rove and Cheney and Bush know this, and use this against us.
Fear has driven this country down, and is now going to break it.
What rises next will most likely be the outcome of widespread anger, force and mutual harm.
May we come to days of reconciliation, like South Africa was forced to face and live through.
May we build a nation like we once had.