The Washington Post, along with Murdoch's empire, are leading advocates of mercantilism in the US. That explains both their political position and their willingness to lecture the rest of the world. Putin's government DARED to interfere in the SACRED American right to property. Human rights are meaningless, we are a culture where business rights are the be all and end all of morality. By seizing American corporate property to appease Russian interests, the Putin government committed the sins of Castro and Chavez within their respective administrations, and, as Cuba proves, when you anger the sugar companies or Exxon, the US has a LONG memory and no end of sermonizing ability.

We have become the Britain of the American revolution, famous for hypocrisy all over the world, allowing nothing and no one to interfere in the process of making our wealthy wealthier. seeing our own economic system as designed and administered by God and therefore sacred. Since the art of propaganda has come a long way in the past 200 years, we've even managed to convince most of our laboring class of the divine nature of their poverty, and the capitalist class has perfected the subversion of the educational system with the aim of ensuring that no new Jefferson or Franklin or Madison arises to challenge this new sacred Business Empire from within.

In this case, the Post is pretty much in touch with middle America. Most Americans lack the education needed to examine the situation and realize the sheer idiocy of the American position. They no longer have the ability to step outside themselves and realize that their self interests are not the interests of the Divine, that American priorities are not those of God. The Post, honestly or for the sake of circulation, is catering to the mercantile interests that retain control over the government of the US, nothing more nor less than that.

Breathed's Opus of 7/27/08, published by Salon, made this very point.

It's almost impossible to envisage a way out of the government by money mess we've gotten ourselves into, and honestly, to paraphrase Jefferson, I grow anxious when I reflect that God is vigilant and just.

I applaud you wholeheartedly. The Democratic party is in a real crisis. Up until this point, we've been the party that was willing to admit that we were wrong, while the Bush regime, such as it is, can be pretty much predicted by merely examining the roots of the party in Lincoln and Grant, from the mercantilism to the obsession with personal enrichment on the part of lower tier government workers. The Democrats have been the party that examined itself, then made corrections as necessary. From the raising of FDR during the Depression, to LBJ's stands on poverty and civil rights, from the McGovern campaign to Carter, from Carter to Clinton, the party has always tried to correct it's mistakes. This latest obsession with reelection at all costs just sickens me. Why fight to elect party members who are just going to throw out previously sacred civil rights, who will cooperate with, even outdo a criminal administration in order to hang on to power? What in the world makes the average party member think that reproductive rights, free speech, freedom of the press won't be the next things to go if it entrenches Obama and company in power?