As a child growing up in a liberal/Democrat/socialist household, I came to realize that the single largest pile of money in the world is what's collected from the people and businesses of the United States. And that's one juicy side of beef to carve up. There's drippings for everyone, but the real meat is going to go to the "priviledged" class, and they will fight like hell to keep their patronage flowing!
In the last 25 years, the class/economic division between the wealthy and the modest has widened, and so has the basic psychology that is inherited within those circles. I had realistic parents who were just used to the idea that their children wouldn never become rich, because they were taught fairness, justice and equanimity, rather than aggression and calousness.
The underclasses don't even know they are being stolen from; that consciousness has left us with the rapid blinking of consumerist entertainment and advertising. There's no time to reflect on one's life when ipod earphones are plugged into your head.
It's always easier to hate than to love.
This struggle towards expanding consciousness is failing in the U.S. We have thinkers, we have moralists, but we don't have any cohesion, because we are divided by class and race and cultural psychology.
Clearly, it doesn't matter any longer what the polls say, or what the pols say, because unless you are in the class of the ultra-wealthy, you and your views are irrelevant, diminished, without any impact. The discourse is all about keeping the ultra-wealthy protected by the military, and spending tax dollars with greedy sycophants is (one of) the simple whorish buyoff that keeps this structure in power.
The pigs will survive Katrina. I don't see a sea-change, as so many hope for and project for. If this disaster meant anything to BushCo., they would have done something sooner, they would not be having to cover their tracks now, there might have been a window for change, but it's not there. BushCo. continues with their agenda unabated; suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act is yet another clear sign that they haven't stopped and won't stop pushing and applying their agenda to re-create a feudal state in the U.S. and the world.
Impeach Bush. Yeah, I wish, but that's not reality. The reality is that the Congress cowers to the power of the ultra-wealthy since those itty-bitty congresspeople want to have all that money and power for their little lives, and cooperation with the agenda seems to get them closer to their small-minded materialistic goals of being permanently Upper-Middle-Class, and not being excluded down the ladder into the realm of the Ignored.
Neglect is a crime.