Bush continues to fuck up this world, yet everyone just sits on their hands while he gets away w/it

[mtnsnake]

Really, Bush (and Cheney) have altered this earth in ways that could take decades to fix, maybe never. The world is ten times more unstable because of them.

The ecosystem is far worse off than ever before because of their greed and negligence, and this comes at one of the most crucial times in the history of this planet. I don't think the words "global warming" have ever come out of Bush's mouth in a serious sense, if at all. It's like there is no room for that concept to exist in his tiny little pea-sized brain.

Bush and Cheney are making a shambles of our Constitution and the silence is deafening.

Wow is it ever a good thing that we Democrats got control of Congress so we could right the ship, impeach the bastard, and somewhat return America to its state of honor and dignity that we were proud of in years past. Heck, every day on the news people get upset, and rightfully so, when a cop's wife comes up missing and we vow to hold the fucker responsible if he's guilty, yet when a leader of a country is committing crimes far more serious on a regular basis.......we * just * stand * there * and * let * him * get * away * it.

While all this goes on, there is little movement by our Democratic Congress to hold Bush and Cheney accountable for what perhaps are some of the most horrific crimes against humanity by one of the most notorious madmen since Hitler. The only movement to be noticed might be the ground shaking above the resting places of our Founding Fathers who are rolling in their graves every time Bush opens his filthy mouth or commits another high crime against against humanity and against our Constitution.

Prior to the last major elections, we worked hard and hoped every single day that in 2006 we would get control of Congress, make the right changes, and hold people accountable for their crimes against this country and the planet. AFAIC, our own people hold some stock in Bush's crimes if they just sit there on their hands and let him get away with it for another day while they worry more about picking up their next hefty paycheck.

There just isn't much more time left in Bush's sorry term to take the legal action we've all been waiting for. What ever happened to the expression, "time is of the essence?"

Is this frustrating or what.

[Auggie]

1. The corporate choke hold on Congress needs to end first

[iamahaingttta]

2. When I read your thread title...

...I was, literally, sitting on my hands.

[HughBeaumont]

3. Violent revolution is the only solution. But it'll never happen.

Voting doesn't work. We voted the rubberstamps out, but we still have no veto-proof majority. They still continue to give Der Fuhrer blank checks for whatever he wants, including sending our soldiers to the Middle East bloodbath without care or conscience. Look at this upcoming election. The media is trying like hell to marginalize any populist candidate that shows the slightest hint of not playing corporate ball. They've all but declared our choice: the former First Lady vs a largely ineffective Mayor with no executive experience, both war corporatists, both free-trade supporters, both supporters of the current Big-Insurance-run health care system that has failed millions.

If you want some fantasy, millions of us could rise up, abandon our livelihoods, financial situation be damned, and storm the White House and the homes of the uber-wealthy plutocrats like Lee Raymond, Dick Cheney, Larry Ellison, the China Mart Family, etc.

The nation as well as the entire world's economy (especially our major trading partners, THANKS to said rich people, China and India) would be thrown into mass upheaval. Thousands upon thousands of us can get nuked, bullet-ridden and dusted by Blackwater, button-pusher Cheney and the police, all of whom would protect the interests of the "betters". Those that succeed somehow in getting past them and onto the homes of the rich and fascist will find them either suicided or fled to Paraguay. We wouldn't have a nation's capital because it'd be radiated or blood-drenched, as would our major cities.

And then what happens?

Would someone in the population know how to rebuild everything from scratch again? How long would that take? What sort of government would arise? What would stop it from being as predatory as the last one? How do we know that the same cycle of exploitation/unfairness/economic inequality wouldn't rear it's ugly head the second time around?

A "blood in the streets" vision would have consequences none of us could even imagine. You think you're dealing with a Nixonesque bunch here? Those guys are long, LONG gone. This is an authoritarian by any means necessary corporatocracy now. They couldn't care less about our voice. They couldn't care LESS about our future. Time value of money models and mercenary economics are how they own and operate. 3-4 million people around the world were in the street protesting the war in 2003. They went to occupy anyway.

At least Nixon, shitty of a president as he was, had a sense of country and legacy. These people don't care about popularity. They never have.

We TRIED caring. I guess we failed because we chose to go through life trying simply to pay our bills and raise our children right, which is difficult enough as it is. I guess we failed because the US isn't passionate enough to want to turn DC into a gorewash. Frog-march politicians and you still have the corporations, the people that REALLY run this country.

When it comes down to it, the problem is corporations and the ridiculoulsy wealthy people that run them. They're greedy, uncaring, unfeeling, think nothing at all of the peasantry (which is worse than "like" or "hate") and don't show any signs of stopping their bullshit anytime soon. They're under some delusion that unbridled corporatism is sustainable . . . forever. And it really isn't. But when the machine breaks, there'll still be rich people.

Who deals with THEM? Are they gonna be burned at the stake or forced to abandon their greedy tendencies?

[mtnsnake]

4. It's disheartening that a solution could possibly come down to fathoming something like that

Powerful post, dude, and very thought provoking. Thanks.

[IndianaGreen]

5. Who put impeachment "off the table"?

Who voted for warrantless searches, suspension of habeas corpus, military tribunals, torture and torture enablers?

Who refused to defund the war?

[mtnsnake]

6. Not only her but all the other enablers from both parties. Anyone but Kucinich & a few others

This is about a ton of people who were supposed to do the right thing for us and almost all of them are simply turning the other cheek. It's almost like their philosophy, concerning Bush, is boys will be boys.

[blm]

7. We've had no Dem voices with any national power since Bush took office.

The only truly influential Dem with any national voice since 2001 was Bill Clinton and still is. No other Dem has had the power to get the news media's attention the way Bill does, so we have all been dependent on him to speak up for our side and influence the debate and opposition against Bush.