Having just watched "The Smartest Guys in the Room," the chilling definitive documentary film on the Enron fiasco, I came to understand that Enron is a harbinger of the national meltdown that will result from the mischief and mismanagement of the Bush/Cheney administration. It is no accident that the Lay gang and the Bush clan had close ties. THESE PEOPLE HAVE THE SAME PATHOLOGY - AND THEY WILL PRODUCE THE SAME RESULTS: DISASTER. The following points of similarity support the terrible equation of America = Enron
- Texas is an incubator of institutional evil. The state seems to foster reckless, desperate, ruthless grasping after wealth and power by people who are willing to hot-wire institutions to achieve personal ambitions.
- Huge numbers of people can be bribed and intimidated into going along. Hundreds and probably thousands of people have failed to blow the whistle because of fear or greed, both in Houston and in Washington.
- Once the scam is big enough, nothing can stop it. Too much money is at stake. Wall Street was solidly behind Enron, just as it is solidly behind Bush.
- When the hard rain falls, it will be the weak and the poor who suffer, not the thieves who tucked away enough offshore cash for a cushy retirement.
- The chief malefactors will never stop lying. Even after they are disgraced and punished, they will still reflexively lie about their crimes.
- The modern American dream is successful crime. Crime is only reprehensible if it does not pay.