A rant on the destruction of America.

[Cyrano]

If someone had come up with a plan to ruin our country back in 2000, they couldn’t have done a better job than Cheney/Bush and their fellow thugs have done in just seven short years.

It’s not just Iraq, or spitting on the Geneva Conventions and other international treaties. It’s not just the justification of torture, or the existence of private armies like Blackwater that are answerable to no one. It’s not just the suspension of rights for anyone Cheney/Bush decides is not entitled to any rights. It’s not just the shredding of our Constitution and the theft of our liberties.

Let’s bring it down to a level that any wingnut simpleton should be able to understand. Look at the price of drugs, gas, food, medical care and just about everything else you can think of. Look at the lack of accountability of officials elected to “serve” us but have instead become our rulers. Look at the fact that your vote may or may not be counted. Look at Republican presidential candidates promising to be worse than our current maniac. Look at our Democratic candidates (with a couple of exceptions) running as Republican “light.” And look at them all ignoring the wants and needs of the majority of us as though we didn’t exist.

Remember the folk song “This Land is Your Land”? I really used to believe that. But it was an illusion back then and it's pure out-in-the-open bullshit today. For all practical purposes, “We The People” might as well not exist. We don’t get to count or verify votes. We don’t get to voice our opinions outside of the net, or letters to the editors. Liberals don’t get much “face time” on the “news” shows. The only voices we have speaking up for us are Air America radio hosts, and Keith Olberman on TV – as opposed to the wingnut whores who peddle fascist propaganda and hatred every minute of every day.

Up until the time that Saint Ronnie became prez, it seemed to me that we were at least moving toward a more just society. But over the past couple of decades, and especially the past seven years, that move toward enlightenment has been set back decades, if not a century. Not to mention that our present supreme court might try to move us all the way back to the dark ages.

Aside from what our current “Crusaders against Islam” think, it would seem that we are the ones who are evolving into one of the most tyrannical countries in history – as well as the owners of the deadliest arsenal in the history of the world. And we, the sane majority, can do nothing to stop it. Somehow, it seems ironic that in WWII, America saved the civilized world. And today, we just might be the biggest threat to civilization.

I wouldn’t have harbored many of these thoughts just seven short years ago. Who would have believed that a handful of greedy, power-hungry, malevolent people could have brought us to this point in such a short period of time? But then, the world has always been controlled by a small handful of people. And short of all out revolution, the peasants were voiceless.

[BeFree]

1. Problem is....

The wrong bushes are burning in SoCal.

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But take away the theft of elections and all that, and what we've got is a Gore admin and at the very least, Kerry.

Given that they stooped so low as to steal elections, it should come as no surprise that they would steal everything else.

[Hydra]

2. The system is broken

I'd say we should fix it, but the flaws inherent in the original system are becoming more plain every day.

It's time to trashcan what we have and makes something better, knowing what we know now.

[Cyrano]

5. Our system may well be broken beyond repair. Unfortunately, no current

"bastion of freedom" exists to save the world this time around.

Perhaps humanity requires another millenium to "grow up," assuming we don't blow ourselves up first.

Then again, global warming, or some stray meteor, might just settle the whole issue for us.

[Hydra]

7. I agree

Dark age or massive revolt is in our future. History's dustbin is huge- we'll be just a small amount in comparison.

[DesertFlower]

3. i totally agree with you.

what i fear is what else bush/cheney will do during the remainder of their tenure. :scared:

[Tyler Durden]

4. OF COURSE they planned it this way.

Cheney's fixed up with Haliburton in Dubai, the Bushes will hit the "pampas" in Paraguay, EVERYONE at the top of the chain is buying gold and euros, and the Private Armies are building up faster than the REAL Army.

The only way all of these issues will make them KINGS is if the USA circles the drain until everything is used up or ruined so that we become the new peasants in the fields growing them corn to put in their fuel tanks.

[izquierdista]

6. Who would have believed?

There were many Germans saying the same thing in WWII.

The fight against fascism has to be unrelenting. Once they gain a public forum squawking about their right to speak freely, they use it to close down any opposing viewpoints. Education is the key, repeatedly pointing out how they ruin the civility and culture in a country. They squawk about freedoms, then take them away from all but the chosen few. They promise the rich upper classes how much more they will get, and then leave the economy in ruins. They "support the troops" and then leave the vet homeless to freeze on the sidewalk. They pass out $300 tax cuts to people needing $3000 of dental work and then make the price of gas triple to take it away from them.

I remember going to Radio Shack back in '93, and the scene on all the TVs was Hillary pitching her health care plan. The minimum wage clerk was spouting the standard right wing invective against her and I had to laugh. Here I was, listening to hear what might this new plan be, maybe it would be an improvement on my company paid health insurance, while someone who didn't have insurance wouldn't listen to the first word.

All I can think is that it is too shaming for a freeper redneck to admit that he got bamboozled by fascists into helping them. :dunce: To paraphrase Mark Twain, "When I was a conservative, I thought liberals were the stupidest people to walk the face of the earth. Then after my job was outsourced and my kids got sick, and our house got damaged in the flood, it's amazing how much smarter those liberals got."

[Cyrano]

9. It never ceases to amaze me how people can be made to

vote against, agitate against and bad mouth their own interests. I really don't know whether it's just plain ignorance, or fear and hatred outweighing hope and sanity.

Aside from lemmings, I can't think of any other species so self-destructive.

[Hydra]

13. "Selfishness is bad for you"

Bad meme, because if you aren't looking our for yourself, who are you looking out for?

[Cyrano]

14. As a devout agnostic, I often hesitate to quote the bible.

However, in this case I'd like to offer an alternative meme. "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you." Biblical sayings such as this have become virtually meaningless cliches. Yet, when you stop and reflect upon them, the wisdom they contain is inspirational and about as humane as it gets.

[Hydra]

16. I follow something like that

enlightened selfishness- if I want to have what I need and be happy as well as enjoying various freedoms, the people around me need to have those things too.

[MedleyMisty]

15. Other living beings?

[Hydra]

17. But which living beings?

many times, when people give their power away, it's to people like Pat Robertson who don't exactly have their best interest in mind.

[bbgrunt]

12. welcome to DU. You nailed it.

[Va Lefty]

8. This country is FUBAR

[canadianbeaver]

10. Completely and undeniably ......

its FUBAR...but not just your country....include the world...its like watching dominoes fall....

[The2ndWheel]

11. Time is more of an illusion than this land being our land

We're not moving forward or backward. Never have been, never will be.

"Somehow, it seems ironic that in WWII, America saved the civilized world. And today, we just might be the biggest threat to civilization."

Civilization is unsustainable. That's why they all keep falling, for one reason or another. America isn't a threat to it, it is part of it, and will follow the same road.

America didn't save the civilized world either. The end point of civilization is one. One way of seeing things, one way of doing things, one way of being. It's about predictability. It's about perfection. The perfect race, the perfect economic system, the perfect society. It's about destroying diversity. That has been going on for more than the last 7 years, or the last 27 years. That's why it's so difficult to stop.

[dysfunctional press]

18. the problems started WELL before 2000.

and even if Gore had been allowed to take office, it still would have already been too late to save the human race from consuming itself and the planet.

[Cyrano]

19. Perhaps. But at least Gore would have held out some hope.

And it goes without saying that Gore would have saved us from enduring seven years of the mentally diseased beings who inhabit the current administration.

Hospices exist to help people die with dignity and without pain. So if planet Earth is really on the way out, I, for one, would have preferred the comfort Gore could offer as opposed to the uncaring arrogance of the demented court jester who thrives on the misery he causes.