WILL BUSH-CHENEY GO QUIETLY INTO THE NIGHT?
A Political Query
by
Michael O'McCarthy
Are we on the apex of a Bush-Cheney denouement?
There appears to be significant insurgent domestic opposition to Bush's regime.
There appears to be an unraveling of his Globalization by Armed Intervention both in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Empire Concept of the Neo-cons appears to be failing apart.
This poses great questions for the American electorate and especially, the American "opposition," sometimes referred to with not more than a bit of cynical humor, as the American Left.
Here are some of those questions:
Will Bush and Cheney go easily into the night leaving America to the "moderate" Left of Hillary Clinton or that of the Liberal Left of Al Gore? Or are they truly the architects of America's Reich and what we perceive is a mere illusion of democratic insurgence?
Has the Right Wing intelligentsia, the Neo-cons, already successful in having established the infrastructure of a world Empire only to give it up with only a whimper?
Or do they foresee passing a more acceptable baton of Corporate State control to the likes of Giuliani or McCain or Rice or Dole?
Or is the real "October Surprise" that they have co-conspirators in the "liberal" wing of the Ruling Class of the Corporate State Empire, ala, wanky Joe Lieberman or the ever-seeming- effervescent, "common sense" sounding Joe Biden to whom they shall entrust the health of Imperialism?
Or is the Left suffused with paranoid delusions of "the dictatorship" of this Corporate State Empire that has been in the making for the last 30 years since the failure of the Nixon Regime?
Or, is American democracy really quite safe, and its not the Night of The Long Knives in the republic and this is just another swing in the clichéd pendulum of American politics:
As one time Democratic Governor Jerry Brown once captured the essence of the American political game:
"They've had their turn at bat. Now its ours!"
Oh, bright and brilliant minds of the Democratic Left ... ponder and respond.
Up The Rebels, Michaelo