"In this great clash the 'other side' detests American democracy itself"

i am totally sick and tired of talking about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin when the goddam country is falling down around our ears... i'm all for organizing and yearlykos and grassroots and winning the mid-term elections but, folks, even WITH all that, things are seriously out of control... no matter HOW BADLY we want to believe that a political/governmental course correction is going to set everything right, it just ain't gonna happen... MAJOR SHIT HAS TO CHANGE... thank goodness, every once in a while, i stumble across someone who is willing to lay it out in all its ugliness...

mark crispin miller, writing in the huffpo, doesn't beat around the bush (pardon the unforgiveable pun)... i strongly recommend you read it all...

The Democrats refuse to talk about election fraud because they cannot, will not, wrap their minds around the implications of what happened in 2004, and what is happening right now, and what will keep on happening until we, as a people, face the issue. In short, whatever clever-sounding rationales they may invoke (no doubt in all sincerity), the Democrats won't talk about election fraud because they're in denial, which is itself based on a lethal combination of inertia, self-interest and, above all -- or below all -- fear.

Such fear is understandable. For the problem here is not simply mechanical or technological, legal or bureaucratic, requiring that we merely tweak the rules and/or build a better mousetrap. Any such expedient will naturally depend on a consensus of "both sides" -- and there's the rub, because in this great clash the "other side" detests American democracy itself. The movement now in power is not conservative but radical, intent on an apocalyptic program that is fundamentally opposed to the ideals of the Enlightenment, on which, lest we forget, this revolutionary secular republic was first founded. The movement frankly disbelieves in reason, and in all the other worldly goods that every rational American still takes for granted: pluralism, checks and balances, "the general welfare," freedom, progress, the pursuit of happiness. For this movement, condom use is worse than death by AIDS, however many millions the disease may kill; the ruination of the planet should be hastened, not prevented, as it means that He will be returning soon; the "war on terror" is a matter not of geopolitics but metaphysics, as our national enemy is "a guy named Satan"; homosexuals should not be citizens, the US having been conceived as a "Christian republic"; and -- most relevant to this debate -- the movement's adversaries, which means all the rest of us, are not human beings with divergent interests but literal "agents of Hell," demonic entities against which any tactic, however criminal or sinful, is permissible, because they are likely to use any tactic, regardless of its sinfulness or criminality, to force their evil program on the Righteous Ones.

it's my view that the apocalyptic element of this radical administration is only being manipulated in order to continue to amass unlimited money and unfettered power... they do dovetail nicely, however, because both are sweeping in their totalitarian approach to society... either bushco or the dominionists can take the role of the "bride of satan" and it really won't make much difference...

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