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Edited on Sat Nov-03-07 09:46 PM by FREEWILL56
I believe the why is multi-faceted with many causes. What we do have is corporations litterally pulling the strings of the gop over many years. The power of the corporations have risen many fold and has enabled the naturally greedy republicons to be bought not only with money, but in ideals as they think alike. In other words most pukes are CEO wannabes who have failed in business, but excelled in bullshit and thusly go into politics. Government is the lawbiding and making body that business looks as its hindrance and enemy.
Moving on we have seen the criminallity of the republicons nature as they view running the government like running a business. This includes the people it's supposed to serve and protect as being only miniscule employess that they must satisfy or find a way to shut them up. The biggest proponent of the real role of the citizenry and the role of government was the democratic party that held the greedy and delusional from becoming kings or having a ruling party acting in such a fashion on monarchy. This was evident during the time of the Vietnam war and in the taking of the Nixon criminal elements to justice. Now don't forget there were elements in government that were not very democratic or healthy for our country back then. We saw the likes of elder Bush in the CIA with J.Edger Hoover in the FBI and the assassination of JFK. The younger Cheney and W along with Rove and many others were trained under the extreme corruption of that Nixon era and they plotted and learned from their mistakes.
Later we saw the likes of the Reagan/Bush era with such things like union busting and using Reagan just as W is being used now, but with one difference. Reagan didn't fully know what they were up to and W does, but they made further inroads into their goals during the timeperiod.
We now come to this millenium with the stealing of elections and running the government like a business with the electorate as the main employees complete right down to outsourcing the many functions of government to businesses that now we don't even go for the best bidder or the quality and nature of the work being considered. That benefits their buddies in the private corporate world that has much power and wealth with little in the areas of compassion or real religious convictions and family values or duty to the country, any country, as many of them are more powerful than countries. Those same republicons hold the same values too.
We get into a war with Al Qaeda due to convenient attacks to the country that leads up to the invasion of Afghanistan in pursuit of the enemy. From there it led to a trumped up war in Iraq for initially the reason of terrorism of which we know was not the case. After the fact they kept giving excuses for the justifications of the war, but they are really going after wealth as the oil is there. If they can't buy em out they take em out just like in the corporate world.
I know this is long and I'm skipping many other good points, but now we have the opposing party that held some of these checks and balances now being attacked as the enemy of them and their goals of a giant fascist state. The 9-11 attacks made it possible for the slithering treasonish pieces of scum to attack many that helped hold them at bay. Anthrax and probably many other attacks that didn't make the news, that they didn't have 100% control of yet at the time, allowing the few we heard of to slip through. It didn't matter though at that time because they shifted blame to the War on Terrorism. They used the media quite well in their quest to advertise the fear factors that those that weren't controlled or bought off sucked up to as it was reasonable to think it was for protecting us. Remember the neat color coded alerts? They did away with them when we didn't buy the bs. Had the threats been real the alerts would not have stopped and was the fear card being using not only on the citizenry, but on those in the government as well.
Anyway, to speed this up the remaining opposition to their control of our government is in our representatives so they threaten, buy them off, or rig the elections so as to rid themselves of them. They haven't fully succeeded here yet, but you see the efforts they made have paid off with Pelosi, Feinstein, and some others. Some are in transition to one degree or another, but some are waking up to the real threat with a few that had always seen the real threat, but were made to be unheard, unnoticed or discredited. They are hoping to keep the populace at bay too before they have instituted enough control. They already know who can do what to stop them because of the war on terrorism is being used that they can, under the guise of protecting our nation, illegally listen in to, track, and even detain permanently without any right to counsel or trial. They strip our rights away to control us and they are dangerous.
DK is 100% right that our democracy is in grave danger.
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