Several years ago, I wrote...The Five Stages of Grief for the Party of FDR (and caught an immense amount of grief for writing it). Consider this diary as the announcement of my arrival into the "acceptance" stage.
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I had gotten to the point where the mental gymnastics of trying to pretend that this country's government is still "on the level" was paralyzing my thinking. So its time to cut the Gordian knot:
This country is not a democracy anymore; its a plutocracy, well on its way to implementing corporate feudalism. We don't have elections anymore; we have auctions, legalized bribery and corruption. Thanks to the SCOTUS and David Addington's shop in the GWB WH, we have the rule of men, not laws. We don't have a free press anymore; we have a corporate propaganda and censorship machine. We don't have civil rights; we have a growing police state, greenlighted by the SCOTUS, complete with out of control cops and massive domestic surveillance. We don't try to conserve the environment; we try to rape it. The plutocrats think money will protect them from environmental collapse; their useful idiot followers think CO2 is the harbinger of the rapture.
One of our political parties, the GOP, is a collection of every rotten element of our society. All you have to do join the GOP is "make your bones" by attacking liberals, women, minorities, gays, etc. The GOP is a "Big Tent" for gangsters. This simple idea explains all the seeming inconsistency that troubles honest and serious people, like Thomas Frank (What's the Matter with Kansas?)
