Some thoughts in response to Digby
(you'll have to go read digby's post first before this will make sense...)
excellent analysis... i don't often have a great deal of patience with such a high word count but your writing is cogent, unpretentious and, yes, informative... i have only one comment and it's related to this...
first of all, i agree, but my comment relates to the fact that i don't think your framing adequately captures the state of emergency the u.s. currently faces... you are a superb observer of political currents... i am a superb observer of overarching patterns and social dynamics... what i have sensed, beginning with florida and the stolen election and culminating in the events following 9/11 and the invasion of iraq, is that the u.s. is the victim of nothing less than a stealth (and a lot of the "stealth" aspects have recently been stripped away) coup d'état...
i first started thinking in those terms back in 2003 but kept it to myself because, quite frankly, i was embarrassed by how radical the notion seemed to me and also out of fear of being placed solidly in tin-foil hat territory... but, as time passed, i found i couldn't shake it and, as i watched things continue to decline and progressively become more and more outrageous, i went to work for howard dean, becoming politically active for the first time as a 57 year old baby boomer... lo and behold, i suddenly found myself with others for whom the notion of a coup d'état was all too real...
when it oozed out from the cracks that discussions had actually been held about suspending or postponing the 2004 elections in the event of a terrorist attack, my immediate thought was, "they've tipped their hand..." since then, i've watched unbelievable revelation after unbelievable revelation all point in the same direction... this administration is not seeking political hegemony, they are seeking total, unfettered power and are poised to suspend the constitution at the first opportunity... it's already happened in myriad small ways but all it would take is another 9/11 to give them the shot at finishing up what they've started...
the terrorists and osama bin laden are bush's best friends... if the surmise about the absolute power agenda is correct, there is no incentive whatsoever to bring the war on terror to an end... and, if maintaining fear in the populace, a subject that's been discussed endlessly by most of us, is the tactic to obtain compliance and achieve power, there is also no incentive to respond to events like katrina, global warming, pollution, mine disasters, iranian or north korean nukes, bird flu or any of the other countless public issues around which we label bushco "incompetent..."
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excellent analysis... i don't often have a great deal of patience with such a high word count but your writing is cogent, unpretentious and, yes, informative... i have only one comment and it's related to this...
"The Republicans desire total political hegemony. And any innovation they propose must now be clearly seen for what it is --- the radical ideologues want to dismantle the New Deal and create a Randian paradise and the politicos want to further enrich their wealthy contributors."
first of all, i agree, but my comment relates to the fact that i don't think your framing adequately captures the state of emergency the u.s. currently faces... you are a superb observer of political currents... i am a superb observer of overarching patterns and social dynamics... what i have sensed, beginning with florida and the stolen election and culminating in the events following 9/11 and the invasion of iraq, is that the u.s. is the victim of nothing less than a stealth (and a lot of the "stealth" aspects have recently been stripped away) coup d'état...
i first started thinking in those terms back in 2003 but kept it to myself because, quite frankly, i was embarrassed by how radical the notion seemed to me and also out of fear of being placed solidly in tin-foil hat territory... but, as time passed, i found i couldn't shake it and, as i watched things continue to decline and progressively become more and more outrageous, i went to work for howard dean, becoming politically active for the first time as a 57 year old baby boomer... lo and behold, i suddenly found myself with others for whom the notion of a coup d'état was all too real...
when it oozed out from the cracks that discussions had actually been held about suspending or postponing the 2004 elections in the event of a terrorist attack, my immediate thought was, "they've tipped their hand..." since then, i've watched unbelievable revelation after unbelievable revelation all point in the same direction... this administration is not seeking political hegemony, they are seeking total, unfettered power and are poised to suspend the constitution at the first opportunity... it's already happened in myriad small ways but all it would take is another 9/11 to give them the shot at finishing up what they've started...
the terrorists and osama bin laden are bush's best friends... if the surmise about the absolute power agenda is correct, there is no incentive whatsoever to bring the war on terror to an end... and, if maintaining fear in the populace, a subject that's been discussed endlessly by most of us, is the tactic to obtain compliance and achieve power, there is also no incentive to respond to events like katrina, global warming, pollution, mine disasters, iranian or north korean nukes, bird flu or any of the other countless public issues around which we label bushco "incompetent..."
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posted by profmarcus at
2/02/2006
