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Why? you may ask.
[Read the article: More fallout from the Comey revelations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why does Bush feel the need to subvert Constitutional rights, basic human rights, and the rule of law generally?
I'll give you a hint: it's not to 'fight terrorism'. Much less aggressive tactics would be far more effective in doing that, and the argument can further be made that Bush's methods overall encourage 'terrorism', not mitigate it. So why is he so wedded to his approach?
It's to create a right-wing police state, a neoconservative totalitarianism. Bush isn't "destroying democracy in order to save it". He's destroying democracy to complete the process of turning the US into a fascist empire for the benefit of power-mad corporate greedheads in Big Oil and the Military-Industrial Complex. If you look closely, you can see that the US is already most of the way there, not in the people, but in how the power structures have been organized in the last twenty or thirty years.
That's what the facts say.
There can be no other explanation.
Bush did say that he preferred to be Dictator. Did you think he was kidding?
Now for the bad news. Despite their problems, the neocons still have a better than 50% chance of succeeding.
Many scholars believe the last fifty years of progressive middle-class freedom and prosperity to have been only a temporary aberration of history, since most of human history has been characterized by large poor populations dominated by small ruling classes.
Power and money naturally flow uphill unless artifices are instituted to prevent it, like labor unions and democracy. But these are artifices: these do not change the natural tendency for wealth and power to accrue to the wealthy and powerful. This is why the price of liberty is eternal vigilance - because that tendency does not go away, and must always be countered.
Indeed, fascism appears to be the natural political disease of modern society for a number of reasons, and may ultimately be the natural end result of human civilization. Because that is what most of the wealthy and powerful want.
Democracy, which has grown up in the last three hundred years, represents, with its emphasis upon individual responsibility and individual actions, the most difficult societal system, requiring a definite human maturity. Totalitarianism and especially fascism can in many ways be regarded as an escape from this difficulty into the irresponsibility of following a leader who deprives the people of their liberty and their maturity but promises them 'security' and 'economic progress'. To that end, personal immaturity and self-gratification are celebrated and promoted by corporate America in particular, and in U.S. culture in general, because it prepares the electorate to give up its responsibility to maintain democracy in favor of totalitarian leadership.
And the population of the US is very well-prepared. Unless the U.S. electorate becomes instead prepared to renounce its political irresponsibility and becomes able to assert its authority through the Constitution over its government, the democratic authority of the people will inevitably be supplanted by one that is corporatist and totalitarian. Neoconservative fascists have the means to accomplish that, and also have the means to make it permanent.
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Why? you ask. Here's why.
[Read the article: More fallout from the Comey revelations]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What's the point of warrantless wiretaps and domestic spying?
Bush is "destroying democracy in order to save it".
Wait, wait, that's not true. It's useless as a technique against "terrorism", and the Bushites know it. So that can't be the reason.
Let me put it this way: you really can't establish and maintain a radical right-wing totalitarian dictatorship without it. And it's the best way to keep neoconservative war criminals out of dungeons at The Hague.
The neocons who run the country can't afford to lose power because they'd end up in prison. A lot of them have already been in prison. They didn't like it. They will do whatever they have to in order to avoid it. Like what? you may ask? In view of everything else they've done, anything is possible.
You can expect the neocons to arrange for very bad things to happen if the Democrats win big in '08. Very bad.
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Why.
[Read the article: "Sicko"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]"Why don't the people who think that other countries are better than ours leave?"
-- prenticehill
Because we're patriots, determined to win our country back from vicious brainwashed treasonous barbarians like yourself. It could be a nice country without the likes of you ruining it for everybody else.
Does that answer your question?
Here's hoping you never get a life-threatening condition and have to go to Cuba to get treatment. They'd be nice to you and save your life, and where would your sick ideology be then?
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We already have socialized medicine
[Read the article: "Sicko"]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]in the US, fully approved by radical right-wing Republicans in Congress, and paid for by the US taxpayer.
And only for Congress. It's just not good enough for the rest of us.
As usual, right-wing pubs talk out of both sides of their mouths. They're just as into socialized medicine as the rest of the country - but only when it's in their own interests, personally. Everybody else can die so far as their concerned, because their politics have that much value to them.
And to think these hypocrites fooled millions of people into believing they have 'morals'. Go figure.