Sunday, May 21, 2006
Fairness for Nazis and Fascists
Equal time requires us to provide a brief couple of sentences equating our leadership with the Soviet Union.
One of the big shiboleths of the USSR was that party was the state (and hence one party rule was obviously therefor OK.)
You cannot say with any credibility that that is not the goal of the zero-tolerance nutjobs controlling the GOP. Rather, you can say it but you'd be dead wrong.
On the other hand, where the state controlled the economy in the USSR, the economy -- that is, the capitalist state, so to speak -- controls the state. The American government exists to serve business. Indeed, it's the primary focus of the present leadership.
But query whether that's a significant difference: state controls business or business controls state. Or rather, in theory it's a big difference but in practice...? Business control of course results in far greater material wealth but other than that is there any significant benefit to the average citizens?
And while we're despairing, let's remember this:
The good news is that this whole trend of, oh, let's call it GOP neo-fascism, is doomed on the electoral level, even with Diebold in charge -- I hope! But the little disasters the present leadership is planting, as it were, will long survive the current political state.
But the administration is like a cancer. And cancer very often is fatal. A democracy lasts only as long as the people enables it to and I fear we dropped the ball, that we will never recover fully from this administration. And shame on us all for this, those who did us wrong and those of us who allowed it.
Indeed, instead of calling this the Rove/Cheney/Bush Adminstration, we can just call it the Traitor Administration.
One of the big shiboleths of the USSR was that party was the state (and hence one party rule was obviously therefor OK.)
You cannot say with any credibility that that is not the goal of the zero-tolerance nutjobs controlling the GOP. Rather, you can say it but you'd be dead wrong.
On the other hand, where the state controlled the economy in the USSR, the economy -- that is, the capitalist state, so to speak -- controls the state. The American government exists to serve business. Indeed, it's the primary focus of the present leadership.
But query whether that's a significant difference: state controls business or business controls state. Or rather, in theory it's a big difference but in practice...? Business control of course results in far greater material wealth but other than that is there any significant benefit to the average citizens?
And while we're despairing, let's remember this:
The good news is that this whole trend of, oh, let's call it GOP neo-fascism, is doomed on the electoral level, even with Diebold in charge -- I hope! But the little disasters the present leadership is planting, as it were, will long survive the current political state.
But the administration is like a cancer. And cancer very often is fatal. A democracy lasts only as long as the people enables it to and I fear we dropped the ball, that we will never recover fully from this administration. And shame on us all for this, those who did us wrong and those of us who allowed it.
Indeed, instead of calling this the Rove/Cheney/Bush Adminstration, we can just call it the Traitor Administration.
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