Has this administration turned us into something less than we ever wanted to be?
Accomplices in our own cheapening?
What I see needing discussion:
Where is "AWAY FROM HERE?"
Where do we go, once we get rid of this administration & will there be anything left?
Has this administration turned us into something less than we ever wanted to be?
Is there a turning back & how do we do it?
Do we "HAVE to stay the course" because they've made other alternatives, if there were any – impossible for those of us who could see the inevitable consequence of these failed
policies?
Accomplices in our own cheapening?
Its that old Gary Larson cartoon with a lone sheep standing up on his back legs - in the middle of the flock saysing "We don't have to be just sheep!"
Fear & sex work so well. In this case - fear. (No blue dresses here).
If we get hit, all the fickle public will flock around Bushies & that is worrying.
Not sure I would trust the group who creates "terror alerts" every time they get their knickers in a twist to give us any semblance of the straight scoop - they haven't to this point. (More appropriate to Bush's past history -
maybe that should be Animal House togas in a twist).
There isn't a way clean out of this presented anywhere & maybe that's premature since we can't actually make those changes so long as ideologues eat our lunch. But we need to realize its partially due to the laziness of some of that same public that now is FLOCKING away from the admininstration too.
There's the rub. Its that flocking behavior. No one wants to work TOO hard to figure out what is true & what is right. Answers & solutions need to come boxed like dinner.
OFTEN many Americans act only from personal & immediate discomfort. Its a little like the Sharpton excerpt from the Rosa Parks eulogy yesterday about black people being instrumental in getting their rights, separating from American complacency in the future.
The invocation of rule 21 & the closed session of congress was the first step for our largely spineless politicians to finally say -
we will NO LONGER remain complicit in our own dumbing down.
Next we are going to hear the spin machine splitting hairs.
The lying Frists who are going to characterize the people who finally spoke up as villainous, but call the members of his own party who still hold fast to the sinking ship, a ship they've themselves punched with holes – as somehow virtuous for going down with the ship.
This is about surrendering democracy because deep down this administration never believed in that form of government anyway.
As for Frist:
I can diagnose his crocodile tears from the video tape.