Last year I thought of something that deeply troubled me. It came to me as I was reading about the Project for the New American Century (which MoveOn describes
here), a right-wing think-tank formed during the Clinton presidency to essentially articulate the neo-con wet dream of a future US foreign and security policy (starting, as it happens, with an invasion of Iraq). Lo and behold, its prime movers and "intellectual authors" -- Wolfowitz, Perle, Cheney, Rumsfeld, etc. -- ended up right where they needed to be to bring their grand "vision" to life.
Read on for why rigged elections may be a necessary and essential part of their strategy for America's future.
Most of you probably are familiar with PfNAC's delusional fulminations about America's alleged weakness under Clinton and its exhortations to create what it literally dubs a "Pax Americana" stretching as far as the eye can see into the future. PfNAC's Pax Americana is to be founded on the deployment of omnipotent US military forces into every conceivable "theater," including outer space. PfNAC's most cogent statement of this vision is articulated in its report, "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources For a New Century," released in September, 2000. This report -- a kind of pornography of corporate militarism -- would give Dr. Strangelove pause.
One line from the report is perhaps our clue to who had a motive to hijack democracy on November 2 and why. It states: "At present the United States faces no global rival. America's grand strategy should aim to preserve and extend this advantageous position as far into the future as possible."
So here's the thought I had a year ago when I meditated on that last sentence, which is still haunting me today. If you were fanatically devoted to a "grand strategy" of total US military domination stretching indefinitely into the future, and fervently believed it was the key to world security, you would be committed to doing what needed to be done to prevent a future US government from abandoning your strategy once it was started, would you not? And how would you do that, short of a coup?
By gaming the electoral system. Forever. Or at least until commitment to the grand strategy becomes a "bi-partisan" consensus.