Yes, if the Congress keeps being terminally stupid, one supposes the level of democracy in this country will rise to the level of Iraq, where electoral winners can't return to their home provinces for fear of being killed.
[Cosa Nostradamus has a real good run down of how well the Ministry of Information is keeping us abreast of the truthiness in our recently proclaimed unWar on Terra in Iraqistan. Although in Afghanistan it's not just the gas that's the hidden motivation for keeping us there. It's the opium.]
The level of participatory democracy- by insurgency- here, too, is bound to increase given the amount of money that our $elected officials are throwing around lately.
There's more cash coming down the tubes, too, for our swooning financial belles:
Now that's what I call financial motivation.
Perhaps I exaggerate? The Republican Christian Taliban are certainly freedom fighters in a war against
Brad Hicks addressed this issue in another part of an excellent post I referenced a couple of days ago:
...The American way of life depends, in part, on a specific illusion. It's a lie that we tell ourselves, and tell our children. What we just did last Tuesday, an orderly, peaceful, even civil transition of power from one generation to the next, from one ethnic group to another, from one political party to another political party with a different political agenda? We lie to ourselves, and lie even harder to our children, that that is something we can count on, something we have always been able to count on, that any alternative is so unthinkable and unnatural for Americans that we need have no fear whatsoever of any alternative.
Historians know that that's a lie. Even if one accepts the incredible claim that every US President who has ever been assassinated was killed by a deranged lone gunman, acting out of personal motives, with no political motive, and with no encouragement or assistance by anyone else, the fact remains: historians know that it can get so bad in the United States, economically, that the American people will withdraw their consent to be governed.
We recall one particular financial industry collapse that rippled outward around the globe (among other things, ultimately bringing the Nazis to power in Germany) not just any recession or depression, but the Great Depression, because the number of people needing work in the US rose to about 3.5 million, or about 20% of all working-age heads of households. In the hardest-hit parts of the country, it reached 50%.
And it's not a coincidence that the next several years saw three credible attempts to topple the United States government: a half-million man general strike called by Soviet-influenced CIO labor unions aimed at sparking a general uprising and Communist revolution that couldn't quite hold out long enough to get their revolution before it collapsed, Huey Long's astronomically-growing Poor People's Army that aimed at overthrowing the Constitution which was only thwarted via its leader's assassination, and an attempt by the 1930s equivalent of the Democratic Leadership Council, then called the American Liberty League, to use corporate money to bribe US military generals into placing them in power via coup d'etat.
No, we know as a matter of objective fact: somewhere in the near vicinity of 20% prolonged unemployment, the USA starts running a serious risk of anarchy followed by totalitarianism...
The Reptilicans likely forsaw this as a result of their
Obviously, there's only one solution. It's much better than violence. Let's have more honest whores in DC, please.
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Thanks for the link.
I still think it's the natural gas pipeline that brought us to Afghanistan. The heroin is just a sideline for financing our covert operations. We're certainly not looking for Osama there, when he's been in Pakistan, or someplace else, for years now.
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