What if the Bush regime unravels right before our eyes?

BushCo unraveling? That may be what's happening.

• He will be inaugurated with serious, perhaps unprecedented public approval problems.
• He will take that oath in January with many Americans strongly suspecting that another stolen election put him there.
 
• Many key architects of his policies have left his administration or are coming under strong pressure from the public.
 
• He's getting much more open criticism and resistance from his own party.
 
• Who knows, maybe the mainstream so-called "liberal media" will even start dealing a little more rigorously with him, his policies, and their consequences.
 
• He's trying to deflect attention from a failing policy toward Iraq because he knows the people of these United States are becoming increasingly displeased with the whole thing.
• His credibility continues to drop, which means public support for more wild new adventures - whether in matters of foreign relations (Iran? Saudi Arabia?) or domestic affairs (Social Security? Homeland Security?) - will continue to shrivel as time passes.

Logic says this term, even the first few months of it, will be disastrous for Bush, for the Republican party, and for the Religious so-called "Right" that so whole-heartedly supports him and them.

On the other hand, Nixon unraveled - and American right-radicalism continued its march to power  here and abroad. Gingrich unraveled, but his attitudes and patterns of behavior have become dominant.  Kenneth Starr and the Congressional extremists of the late 90's wasted multiplied millions to produce nothing concrete, but the agenda they served continues to advance.  So maybe the "unraveling" of individuals or groups of them is just the way they make progress. At the least, they increase their grip on power in spite of those unravelings.

What does that mean?  It means this Bush version of radical right America may unravel, only to be replaced by a new metamorphosis of the same destructive agenda.  I hope not, but it is a real possibility.

It also means that we have to know deeply that our agenda for this country is not ultimately a political one.  We are not seeking only the unraveling of a particular group of politicians, or the installation of a particular group of alternative politicians.  We want and need and can achieve that, and that project is crucial, as well as powerfully motivating and exciting.

 

But we are serving a higher vision of what America is about, of why America came to exist in the first place. We are not seeking only a short-term victory, so unexpected new frustrations should not derail us. This is a bigger thing than that. We seek the victory of the vision of "America" -  the hope that "America" has meant to so many immigrants and would-be immigrants for centuries - the inspiration that "America" has been for so many activists and even revolutionaries (and would-be activists and revolutionaries) around the world for centuries.  We want America to be America again, and to become America for those who have been excluded from that experience, or exploited by it.

Point 1

It really looks to me like the Bush regime is toast - it surely would be in "normal" times.  Watergate was nothing compared to what we already have on these people -- and that's not even counting the likely discovery of rampant and deliberate election fraud.

Point 2

If BushCo does unravel - and it could hardly happen to more deserving people - there are hundreds and thousands more like them sitting on the bench, eager to get into the fray.  They have been showing us for years what they are like; they have neither scruples nor shame.  Bush and bunch were second-stringers themselves.  Even if they get thrown out of the game, the referees are still not completely in control of things. It may not get any prettier for some time to come.

Point 3: the "Most Important Point"

I think we need to be preparing ourselves to keep at this - with intensity, pushing hard for real short-term and long-term victories - for the long haul.  We've got to be explicit, confrontational (with civility), clear, deliberate, persistent.  We've got to find lots of Americans (and others) willing to act like it's right at the top of the list with their most important things. Most of us will have to do it part-time or less than part-time.  But it's worth the short-term bursts of energy and activity, AND the long-term dogged visionary active persistence.

I'm more or less normal; I really want quick, decisive victories.  But whether these people go relatively quickly and thoroughly, or drag out the bitter fight even beyond the end, we have to stay the course. Our kids and grandkids, the whole world's kids and grandkids, need that from us.

(from my site: PublicChristian.com)