First Diary: Don't call them "incompetent"

What many people do not seem to understand is that Bushco is doing EXACTLY what they intend, which is to destroy the government in all but name by the time they leave. They are in fact frightenly competent at their real goal.

There are so many truly incompetent people and cronies in the bureacracy that the truly well meaning people who do work in government cannot keep the system working.

They are destroying the essential trust, "The consent of the governed", in the government by its citizens without which the government can do nothing to stem the corporations rapacious greed and urge to control what they can.

You can see it in the poll results where people grade both parties as equally bad on corruption and trustworthiness. Sure those polls are slanted by the corporate-owned media, but just talking to people on both sides of the spectrum will illustrate the point that people are nearly at the point where they simply do not trust the govt to do ANYTHING right. Not even national defense now. No Nation-Building either, not even here in the "homeland".

I wish I could say that the Democrats coming into power now will fix it, but there are so many corporate lickspittles among them and the fact that they totally cooperated with the Rethugs in redistricting where the politicians pick the voters instead of the voters picking them has brought me to the point that I no longer have confidence that enough good people can take over now at the verge and stop it.

When they are all gone, their corporate buddies will take them in and the government will be powerless to stop them, no matter who is in charge of the government. Deregulation has worked so well for the corporations. There are no tools left for the government to do anything to go after them or recover their ill-gotten gains, and even when there are, the Republemmings and Democraps have reduced the penalties to the point of the cost of doing business, and even when that happens, the corporations lawyers fight it out and end up not paying anyways.

Actually, as I write this, I realize I must go further. When Democrats did not stand up with McCain, Warner, and Graham to stop TORTURE, and then some even voted for it, I say that was the moment in history when the feeding tube was pulled from Democracy's body. It is truly over now, as all future Presidents will claim this power in law, if not in fact.

The framers tried really hard to stop this experiment from going astray and they were so brilliant in that task that it did well for almost two hundred years before it went too far. They could not stop a COMPLETELY INTENTIONAL attempt to literally break the system forever. Eisenhower warned about the military industrial complex, and it has now performed the slowest motion coup in history. We are merely spectators, not even participants at this point.

God help us all.