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Great Post- you are a splendid writer. I will be very pleasantly, gratefully actually, surprised if we do not see another four years of the Bush Empire. There are several dimensions to why I feel that we will. I believe that the point we have reached has been carefully and deviously orchestrated for the majority of my lifetime. (I am 44 years old) I believe the momentum and foundation of the Bush Empire was secured nearly 25 years ago and what has been unfolding since was unoticed the the majority of people in this country. I believe there was a deliberate effort to create a culture that nutured the comfort level of Americans, They created an environment, in other words, that encouraged unquestioning complaceny. Everybody feel under the spell of consumerism and the culture of "ME," "my stuff," "my happines, "me first." Meanwhile, the corporations providing us with goodies to keep us in comfort queitly consolidated, merged and mongered their way into "absolute control over every living soul..." as Leonard Cohen warned us they would. But we were comfortable, so who cared? We had our toys and reality altering drugs, so whoopee! Over indulgence of any type, for a long enough period of time, will eventually destroy a very important peice of the soul. Just one look around your neighborhood should prove that. I have never seen a more callous population than we have fostered here in this country. Even the so-called "spiritual" people among us are some of the greediest people I have ever encountered, if you get to close to their "stuff." And their spirituality is motivated by their desire to be "happy" not to make someone else happy. Again the "me-my-mine" motivation cloaked in some seemingly high purpose. All in all, the combination of people who are shallow and extremely ignorant, not stupid, mind you, rather IGNORANT because they don't HAVE to know anything that "matters," and the completely consolidated corporate power is a recipe for disastor. The power cabal is not about to give up what they have worked towards for so many years. They lie, cheat and steal with impunity, and the people, as in WE the people, they lie to are far too self-centered and easily divided by issues based in emotional self-righteousness are far too busy pursuing our happiness agendas to actually understand what has happened and is happening. The Empire is always ten years ahead of us. That is what frightens me- especially when you read the Patriot Acts. The Patriot Acts suggest to me, that they fully intend to be in power for four more years, and then some. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think so. BHN
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