In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
On the Brink
I'm feeling doomed. All these loudly quacking people in large positions saying, "Another attack is inevitable ... we're inviting the terrorists to attack us ... a large-scale imminent terror attack ... the attack is coming ... no way to avoid terror attack ..." blah blah. Can these people just shut the fuck up? What's going on? People are debating, turning Doomsday into politics. The End of Life is now just more grist for the mill. We are truly back in the fifties. I feel like every day is a Twilight Zone episode, circa 1959.
Think about this for one second: When Bush came parading into Washington spewing his particular brand of bullshit, what was the gist of it? It was, Government bad! Washington bad! No more government! Shrink government! Government off our backs!
In fact on the morning of 9/11 Bush was on an anti-government multi-state crusade in America's classrooms to ram this putrid message down little kids' throats. He was actually leading a cheer, trying to get these first and second graders to chant along, I'm not making this up. The events of that morning so overshadowed what he was doing at the time that everyone forgets what the so-called president was up to that whole week. Then of course Giuliani became "America's Mayor" in one day and the Bush machine scrambled to co-opt all that, but their modus operandi remained what it always was and still is, even and especially after we were attacked (we meaning New York -- New York in particular, you may not have noticed that, after the Bushes decided to "own" 9/11; suddenly New York became our whole country, as opposed to "Evil," which is how pandering Republicans were frequently referring to it before that day). And that modus operandi was and is doing nothing. That's their whole religion. Do nothing. The government is not in the business of solving problems. No problems at all. Terrorists attack us? Well you can't expect government to do anything about it. Sure, we can have a big war in Iraq and defense contractors can make pots of money and play with all the new Pentagon toys -- which we all paid for in blood -- but actually solve a problem? Since when was that ever a goal?
It never was a goal and that's the dirtiest secret. They still don't believe in doing anything about it. A government that helps anyone is an alien philosophy and any thought or mention to that effect has no chance of entering their minds, which are set. That's what a mind set is, a set mind. This is government that helps itself. We are not being protected and all your lives are at risk. These people do not have the national interest at heart, and never have, and don't believe in a national interest, and were jumping up and down and shouting as much from every rooftop on the morning of September 11th. I remember.
I feel like Rod Taylor at the end of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds. All we can do is crawl quietly into our little cars and drive away and pray the millions of massing birds won't insanely rip us to pieces.
- Michael 10:32 AM - [PermaLink] -
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