Cheney and * have accomplished what Osama never dreamed of.. bringing down

[BigBearJohn]

the American democracy and replacing it with a dictatorship.

Is the American Constitution going to be put through the shredder until there is nothing left but strips of paper to throw out in the trash? Or are some patriotic heroes going to rescue America?

Right now the "Centrist Democrats" are still sitting back acting as if there's no immediate crisis. Their consultants warn them not to appear too radical! As if the dismembering of democracy by Cheney and Bush is not radical! As if the brazen seizure of illegal dictatorial powers is not radical! As if the conduct of an unnecessary war costing thousands of lives, fomenting a new generation of terrorists, and bankrupting America is not radical!

The Bush dictatorship -- and it has clearly and publicly crossed the threshold now -- is not going to tiptoe away. Dictatorships don't. They hang on until they are displaced from positions of power.

If the Democrats don't start yelling fire soon, we'll just be left with the burning hulk of what once was a great democracy. We are on the verge of irreversibly becoming just another dictatorship "ism."

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/05/12/ana05056.html

[maxsolomon]

1. OBL's plan all along. expose our true nature to all of Islam

doesn't matter if he's alive to see it or not.

give me examples of when we have functioned as a "great democracy". seems like it has always been an oligarchy using democracy as a beard.

exceptions:
TR taking on the trusts
FDR's social safety nets & depression era work programs
LBJ's dismantling of segregation

[Realityhack]

4. well said on both points (n/t)

[triguy46]

2. I'm no prophet, and I often wonder if I'm bright enough for DU...

but, when the patriot act flew threw congress, I told the wife, 'the terrarists have won.' As evidenced by having my 84 year old mother have to take her shoes off to get on a plane, they have sufficiently jerked our chain where the masses are comfortable with trading civil liberties for
"safety." Folks, wake up, the terra is residing on Penns. Ave

[melody]

3. That was their job. Clinton made us too strong, so Bush was sent in

King of bankruptcy and failed businesses galore.

And the people who are to blame for this are in every European nation -- not just ours.