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Just so...
[Read the article: The Weekly Standard's "9/11 Generation"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Ondelette, quoting someone else:
h/t to casual_observer
I think the jist of Barnett's approach is part of a growing trend by the extreme right to blame the american people when things start going poorly for the radical agenda.
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Note well: does anyone here think that ANY member of the right-wing noise machine will EVER admit to being horribly wrong about any of this? No.
When everything they have advocated for proves to be ineffective, counterproductive, actively dangerous and morally bankrupt, do you really think Malkin and Goldberg and Kristol and Limbaugh, and whoever else will EVER admit to fault? No.
So, they will have to find someone to blame.
The last time the GOP and its enablers supported the expansion of our involvement in a civil war--Vietnam--and lost, they spent 30 years blaming those against the war for everything. The war we see now, and the crimes against the constitution and against the american people, are, in many ways, evidence of the success of that lie: that those against the Vietnam war were the reason we "lost." Half of America, the half that voted for Bush twice, probably believes that lie entirely. Along with all the other lies.
When Iraq is finally proven to be equally disasterous and we have either withdrawn, been driven out, or have a small force there forever, the GOP will blame those of us against the war, once again. What will that ongoing lie produce next time?
Note also that the one time in recent memory when the Democratic party supported intervention in a civil war, in Bosnia, the result was hardly tidy, but the Democrats, and clinton, did get the job done, as the GOP screamed bloody murder. Where have all those GOP partisans been as we lose far more in Iraq?
The corruption, the hypocrisy and the sheer dishonest of the GOP over the last six year defies the language to describe it. In the past, lying on this scale has resulted in revolutions and busy tools of execution.
We won't have that here.
But maybe we should have. Guillotine a few key heads and I wonder how long the plutocratic right in this country would stay quiescent? Probably not for long. They're like roaches. You can't kill them all. And they breed in the dark.
What then, is the remedy? Do we really think the fascist wing of our politics will ever give up? Ever give in? Ever admit they're wrong? Nope. Their power, their status, their very LIVES depend on them NOT admitting fault. Not ever. Not even a little. I don't know what you do about that kind of stubborness.
'course..ol' Joe Stalin knew what to do. Thankfully, we're not there. Yet.
But it does leave us a nasty problem: what do we do about these people, who seem genuinely deranged, and appear to have the emotional maturity of a 14-year-old? I don't know. But I do know this: we better think of something, and fast, because these crazy people are not going away, and they're not giving in, and they're not going to admit they were wrong about nearly everything. They're going to fight like cornered weasles to keep power and status..and I'm not sure the country can take it.
Look where we are. It's not a good situation. And with water-shortages, fossil-fuel shortages, climate change and loose nukes (not to mention a financial system that is nothing more than an elaborate ponzi scheme) staring us in the face, the last thing we need is these crazy people having any say in the future.
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I'd love...
[Read the article: Mr. Humble]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]to see Newt run. He'd get run like a gong. What a dope. He needs a good shrink, not a presidential campaign.