Bush will win Big in 2004 - There Is No Longer Any Hope For Us

[bobd]

The capture of Saddam will fire up the public into a slathering mass of Bush and Republican worship. The media will go absolutely nuts over Bush and the GOP. The fact that this entire war was based on transparent lies means nothing in the minds of the robotic citizenry. This event will be used by all of the powers that control opinon to relentlessly hammer away at any Dem candidate who dares to question the war. Film of Saddam's capure, his perp walk, his trial, his execution will be the centerpiece of Bush's campagin ads. This one event gives him back his flight-suit film AND his turkey film. The Republicans once again are free to define the concepts of patriotism and family to suit their ambitons, once again unambiguously own the symbols of the flag, the cross, and the star of David, and perhaps most importantly, once again own the hearts and minds of the military. After the next election they will own the entire government with veto proof majorities. The remaining, mildly liberal SCOTUS justices will resign and be replaced by ultra-rright wing extremists. All of this will be greeting with cheering crowds and and a fawning media. Count on it. Bet on it. Bet your house on it. It's that bad. It really, really is.

Depressed and despondent as I am, reading DU actually did give me hope for the future. This event negates all that. What can we do? We are hostage to events over which we have no control. We can only watch in horror as all of what we hope for is dashed against he rocks of conservatism.

So go ahead and holler at me, laugh at me, accuse me of being clueless, reply with zzzzzzzzzzzz, call me a freeper, a GOP mole. Tell me to stop my whining, to get lost. Tell me that it's people like me that are dragging our cause down. Tell me to magically become an optimist. Tell me winning is as simple as making phone calls, participating in voter registration drives, shouting from the street corner. Tell me that if only people knew, if only we can find the right combinaton of magic words we will win. While you're at it get in your time machine and tell the people in 1920-30's Germany the same thing. It really worked there didn't it?

I give up.