Reply #122: all pieces to the puzzle

[Two Americas]

Why people are unable to put this puzzle together in their minds is mysterious to me.

Each of these things - Homeland Security, FISA, immigrant round ups, detention centers, Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, the Military Commissions act, the corruption, the politicization of the federal bureaucracy, the private mercenary armies - isn't it obvious that these are all part of an aggressive and concerted effort to put together a militarized police state?

These are not all separate issues, they are all tied together. We are crippled by our insistence on keeping them separate. ACLU is against this, Code Pink is against that, madfloridian opposes another thing we think - "we all have our pet issues" blah the f-ing blah and "you can't always get what you want" and "we need to compromise on this" and "eyes on the prize people" and all of the rest of the bullshit.

And then people say the administration is inept or incompetent. How blind can people be? Incompetent at WHAT??? They have done more damage to this country in less time and with virtually NO resistance than I ever could have imagined possible. They intended to do exactly what they have done - they aren't "making mistakes." They are GENIUSES to pull this off. The only alternative explanation, if people do not want to see the administration as brilliant, can only be that WE are so stupid, so blind, so cowardly, so confused and delusional that we are making it easy for them regardless of whether or not they are competent. Us - not the sheeple, not the fundies, no the knuckle-draggers, not the "low information voters," not the DLC, not Pelosi, not Obama - us. We are the ones preventing people from putting the pieces together on this and understanding it, and we are the ones paralyzing any resistance and blocking any efforts at organizing the people to fight back against this very dire and immediate threat.