- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
"They are literally buying a judicial victory in Congress -- just like Carothers warned that third-world countries must avoid if they want to become functioning democracies under the "rule of law""
gee, when you put it THAT way it sounds kind of bad.....
Seriously though, what more proof does anyone need that the American Experiment has failed in its mission? We have progressed (?) from nation with intentionally limited and weak central government to one that has appropriated to itself powers rivallng the monarchy it revolted against 230 years ago.
I greatly appreciate Mr. Greenwald's writing on all of this, but I weep (well, not really) over the fact that the vast majority of the American citizenry is completely ignorant of it. When I read about the erosion of the Rule of Law here I wonder what the hell we can do about it. People I talk to literally shrug their shoulders; "well, what can you do?", "that's the way it is."
Or is it really too late?
