Dear Obama Supporters;
This is an open letter that I hope reaches Democrats, including Senators Obama and Biden. Neither has yet talked about the excessive and scary usurpation of executive power by George W. Bush. Never before has one man been able to so wreck our country, except maybe the mismanagement of Presidents Ulysses Grant and Andrew Johnson in the aftermath of the Civil War that enabled the Ku Klux Klan to rise in the South.
A new book by Chalmers Johnson spells it out in horrendous detail that I hope Obama supporters will respond to. Its title is "The Last Days of the American Republic", third part of the American Empire Project Johnson has been writing (available at Amazon.com). Johnson quotes James Madison in the first chapter: "Of all the enemies of true liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other (enemy of liberty)." Johnson documents our scary descent into the utter lawlessness of this administration. He asserts that the framework of our Republic has been disintegrating as Congress and the courts have turned ever more power over to an Imperial Presidency, just as happened in Rome in 27 A.D. (and Julius Caesar). It is a tremendous read! Chalmers Johnson is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley.