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We are about to witness the inability of this country to come to terms with the nightmare of the last eight years much less hold anyone accountable. This should not shock anyone since we have seen this same process play out starting with the widespread criminal and unconstituional activities of the Nixon years culminating in his pardon. This was followed by the criminal and unconstitutional activities of the Reagan administration during the Iran/Contra affair. In a historic context the Bush administration only continues and furthers trends apparent to anyone who pays any attention to our recent history.
We will now be inundated by a litany of reasons why criminal and unconstitutional actions cannot be revealed, investigated, and prosecuted with the intention of making, finally, it absolutely clear that people will go to jail for breaking the law. We could end the nightmare with the latest attack on our society but it is highly likely that won't happen.
It won't happen because the political class--politiicians at the highest level of government, appointees at the highest level of government, the intellectual mafia from the Ivy league schools and the think tanks, all of the careerists who place their immediate interests before any other consideration, the corporations who have a vested interest in the National Security State--are all complicit and at risks for any true accounting to take place.
The prospect is for more of the same. The two party system will continue down the merry path of avoiding discussing real issues. The intellectuals will provide the rationale for avoiding an accounting. The corporate interests will continue bellying up to the bar. Those who are concerned about truly changing the direction of the country will be ignored and marginalized.
