Bush Era Over? Not Good Enough!
The belief system of the Neoconservative movement is fatally flawed. There is not room in this post to address this, but the signs are accumulating:
a) The Iraq war was a based on manufactured evidence. This is OK in the Neocon world, where democracy is made to be manipulated by and for the elite. Aggressive US policy keeps the US in power with no real competition... and preemptive, even aggressive war is OK. Sustain the lie with nationalism.
b) After the election, people started catching on when they went after Social Security. This time the lies were blatant and the numbers obviously did not add up. About the same time the evidence that the Iraq war was BS. People started seeing the trend.
c) Now Katrina. The system of government espoused by the Republican Neocon movement shows its weaknesses. Maybe people don't realize this one failure is an indication of systemic failure. Maybe they will, if this is properly pursued by an investigation. But they know now that Bush is a failure.
Three strikes.
But will the midterm elections shift the balance of power? It may not, if people see this only as a Bush failure. They must see the pattern extends to the whole Republican system of only elevating sociopathic fundraisers, not good leaders with the interest of the public in mind.
Democrats are no bargain. But consistently you will see more social conscience among liberals than conservatives. It's built in. So while Democrats will participate in porkbarrel politics, and occasional bribery or influence peddling, at least collectively they recognize it as criminal. They don't institutionalize it and call it good business.
a) The Iraq war was a based on manufactured evidence. This is OK in the Neocon world, where democracy is made to be manipulated by and for the elite. Aggressive US policy keeps the US in power with no real competition... and preemptive, even aggressive war is OK. Sustain the lie with nationalism.
b) After the election, people started catching on when they went after Social Security. This time the lies were blatant and the numbers obviously did not add up. About the same time the evidence that the Iraq war was BS. People started seeing the trend.
c) Now Katrina. The system of government espoused by the Republican Neocon movement shows its weaknesses. Maybe people don't realize this one failure is an indication of systemic failure. Maybe they will, if this is properly pursued by an investigation. But they know now that Bush is a failure.
Three strikes.
But will the midterm elections shift the balance of power? It may not, if people see this only as a Bush failure. They must see the pattern extends to the whole Republican system of only elevating sociopathic fundraisers, not good leaders with the interest of the public in mind.
Democrats are no bargain. But consistently you will see more social conscience among liberals than conservatives. It's built in. So while Democrats will participate in porkbarrel politics, and occasional bribery or influence peddling, at least collectively they recognize it as criminal. They don't institutionalize it and call it good business.
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