While I was reading the posts at Alternate Brain this morning, I came across a link to a post by Chris Floyd at Empire Burlesque that Fixer had put up.
The Last Stand of the American Republic:
"How will the Establishment deal with this direct challenge? The past few years give little grounds for hope: the Democrats spineless, conflicted, co-opted and corrupt; the Republicans slavish, bellicose, cruel and criminal; the media timorous, witless, corporate-controlled; big business absolutely rolling in gravy from the autocrat's larder; academia cowed, silenced, ignored, demonized; the military acquiescent in criminal aggression, top-heavy with time-servers currying autocratic favor. Only the courts provide some stray sparks of hope, although they too are now loaded with political sycophants, corporate bagmen and knuckle-dragging throwbacks produced by the Right's decades-long devolution of American jurisprudence. Prosecutors like Patrick Fitzgerald and Elliot Spitzer "keep hope alive," but their efforts will mean little in a system where lawlessness at the top has been countenanced by the rest of the Establishment. And in any case, the outcome of their work lies ultimately with the Supreme Court -- the same court that shredded the Constitution in awarding power to Bush in the first place, and which is now led by a Bushist apparatchik."
"Still, you don't go through a constitutional crisis with the Establishment you want; you go through a constitutional crisis with the Establishment you have. And this sad, sick crew, ladies and gentlemen, is all we have. If they swallow the spy scandal, if they don't push back now -- and I mean really push back, not just make a lot of harrumphing noise or hold a few toothless hearings or get a couple of underlings offered up as ritual sacrifices to save the Leader -- then we will have well and truly and finally lost the Republic that Franklin, Jefferson and Madison gave us so long ago."
THIS IS DEFINITELY A MUST READ, MY FRIENDS!!
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One thing I have noticed that is interesting is how so many of us on the left continue to be disappointed by the democratic party. It's happening on the right, too, but they are more devoted to the republican party so they just disown their own as "rino's" (republican in name only) when they don't please. The hot topic among the right lately, from what I have seen is their insistence that Bush is a liberal!
Maybe we're seeing the beginnings of a transformation of the partisan status quo that has held sway for so many decades. Change might be on the horizon, good, bad, or something in between.
"One thing I have noticed that is interesting is how so many of us on the left continue to be disappointed by the democratic party. It's happening on the right, too, but they are more devoted to the republican party so they just disown their own as "rino's" (republican in name only) when they don't please."
I have to agree with you. I think the reason this happens is because the left is full of free thinkers, we don't just fall in line and goose step to someone's propaganda...whereas the right does on a regular basis.
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