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Corporations, the rich new aristocrats and kingmakers that run them, and their governmental toadies worked together to pull out all the stops in their expert, well-practiced advertising campaign of distraction, and they were successful.
They got enough Americans to fester to a boiling rage over the imagined licentiousness of individuals - in order to detract them from the very real licentiousness of immortal corporations.
Greed is good.
No wild place will be sacred. No woman secure in her liberty over her body. No asthmatic sure of his or her next breath. No investor confident in the information provided. No taxpayer able to stop the plunder of the Treasury by Halliburton and the PNAC pirates. No wronged person sure of being made complete. A judiciary that will be looking the other way as our grandchildren are disappeared.
We learned yesterday that there is no longer any compelling sense of community left at all in this adolescent, spoiled nation.
More than half of our neighbors and acquaintances, while overwhelmingly convinced that the nation was moving in the wrong direction, chose "every man for himself" coupled with buying into the cheap dimestore machismo of a coke-snorting New Haven prick with a fake aura, fake accent, and fake hollywood ranch outside of Waco.
Offered independence from the Saudis, we chose serfdom to the nouveau castle-builders and moat-diggers of the coming dark ages.
I have to hand it to Americans for seeking new thrills over the tried and true, however.
The last time a Republican Congress and Republican President had inflated the wealth of the rich, gamed the stock market, and driven the nation to the brink of the Great Depression, we fired Hoover.
Now we get to see what will happen by rehiring him instead.
Dan Brown
Saint Paul, Minnesota
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