Tragedy and Hope.

[happydreams]

Democracy cannot exist in a permanent state of war said James Madison. We have a very powerful centralized authority that has 100 years of research on human pschology in its possession, plus programs that employed (employ?) mind altering drugs, combined with a high tech spying apparatus that is allowed to continue even when in gross and direct violation of the law. The flaunting of the law made easy by the Repug control of all three branches of government. Power facilitated furhter by a war machine that fuels this control where alot of the profits go to the private interests of the fascist controlled central authority. A willingness by the fascists to use as much force as neccessary to keep themselves in power--the list of those who exposed or threatened to expose them and met untimely deaths is long.

Any attempt at threatening their power will be diluted by the inability to have private dialogue and planning.

We are way beyond anything that has happened before in the US.

But we also have the Internet that allows people from around the world to communicate with each other. We have seen how countries like Venezuela have reasserted their right to sovereignty as the fascists, bogged down in Iraq are unable, to keep them under wraps. The carefully crafted international network of thugs and terrorists trained after WWII to serve the neo-liberal/internationalist/Trilateralist agenda has become problematic, some are not heeding the CIA's dictates, some may have become rogue elements for their own ends. The "suicide bombers" in Iraq and elsewhere may be a spinoff from the CIA and Nazi programs that trained a crop of Mid-East terrorists after WWII including the famed Fedayeen. Many of these bombings may, I say may, be by people who are so stoked on drugs and religious fervor that they really are not in control of themselves: the Manchurian Candidate perfected.

Bush grossly miscalculated in Iraq. Expansionism via military conquest is no longer possible. A defeat in Iraq will encourage other nations under the imperialists thumb to take action. I thought at one time that Bush doesn't care about winning in Iraq, but a loss of Iraq defined as pulling out and leaving it to the locals, will be a big blow to the Bush oil empire. Supplies will be even less secure than they are now and the biggest threat to oil, renewable alternatives, will grow in its attractiveness.

Internationally the fascist controlled US is digging a big hole for itself and may be worried about public outrage, both domestically and internationally, if they start offing progressive leadership, especially democratically elected leadership. Like all expansionist powers that overreached the US, with over 700 military bases worldwide will have to pull back. The corruptions of the Bush Administration, if not checked, may lead to a rapid decline in geopolitical clout as well as uprecedented domestic political and social unrest. One question this writer has is will the US domestic and international economic forces who stand to lose from a disrupted declining international economy eventually stand in opposition to the fascists. The disaffection of numerous high profile and official people from the Bush adminstration as well as some power economic figures like George Soros, is encouraging, but doesn't seem to have had a tangible impact on the fascists grip on political power.

The legalistic approach to curbing Bush's power has had some effect. Delay, Abramof, Plamegate, can't help but be an economic and political drain on fascist central. Torturegate has the potential to be divisive as we see McCain being staunchly opposed to torture and Cheney attempting to keep it alive. But with such a huge amount of wealth garnered from the Iraq conflict and the war on terror (Marvin Bush was poised to profit from Homeland Security before 9/11)combined with the very short memory of the US public at large it will be relatively easy for the fascists to alter perceptions through the corporate owned press. Scandals fade.


After WWII Italy public sentiment moved sharply to the left but the CIA subverted this movement by rigging the elections. Election rigging is commonplace. The Church Committee action in the 70's showed that the CIA was deeply involved in election tampering. It appears that, even with a strong majority in its favor, elections can be rigged in an industrialized nation to go against the national will. We can safely assume that the election system, as it stands, is controlled by the CIA and other elements in the Intelligence Community, but with such alternatives to e-voting as mail in voting that is used in Oregon and elsewhere there may be a way of effectively disrupting the fascist control. Creative grassroots efforts to secure mail-in voting are fundamental to getting these bastards out of power. But then who do you vote for?

That leads to the sad state of politics in the US. Recently on Nightline a poll showed that 73% of the American public doesn't think there is much difference between the Republicans and Democrats. But then 72% thought that Iraq was involved in 9/11. There really isn't a party representing the people as Noam Chomsky recently pointed out. What to do about this is hard to say. My research has shown that strong corporate influence and control of the political spectrum goes back at least 120 years as monopoly capitalism gained prominence. I think that a party has to emerge that will draw the disaffected Republican elements over in large numbers; maybe under the banner of anti-imperialism as Mark Twain and friends tried at the turn of the last century.

Just some thoughts