Will America lose interest this time?

[vi5]

How long before Americans move on from this to more trivial matters, as they alwasy do. How long before they are back to their usual selves and worrying about something utterly idiotic and vacant and forgetting about the tremendous failure (the latest of how many) under Bush? I wish I had more hope that it wouldn't be as pathetically predictable as it always seems to be but I know better.

Will it start with the inevitable debate surrounding Rheinquist's replacement? Will the photo ops work?

Will things like Bush staging photo ops at the disaster scene and his direct ties to this mismanagement be glossed over by the press once they get back home and have a hot meal and a warm shower and get themselves all prettied up and calmed down? Will the press who for the past week have wandered off the ranch into real journalism be called to task and brought back in line by their corporate masters?

How can half the country look at the way this idiot has botched things and say they approve of the job he did on it?

Ugh. Just thinking about the inevitable forced swing back to normality after this makes me fume.

[ThoughtCriminal]

1. They can't - the impact is too huge - nm

[vi5]

2. Yeah, but I've said that before...

..and I'm afraid I'll say it again.

[Qibing Zero]

3. Of the people I know IRL:

More than half don't want to go into discussion about any of it.

I've always said - as long as people can live their OWN daily lives without problems, they don't tend to care about much else.

I remember a discussion I had years ago about a bicycle protest. There was a protest going on to try and get more people to bike to work instead of drive. People were spitting mad about the bikes being in the streets, yet applauded any instance where the bikers were forcefully removed and at times physically abused by the police. If they stopped those people from getting to work on time, the vast majority said, they should be run over.

And we wonder why people care more about gas prices than the people dying.

How many times will we hear this come sept 24th? "The war in iraq? Ehhh.. don't like it, but I can't get time off work to protest it."

[MadeinOhio]

4. Three days tops, no longer.

But the inevitability of the creeping shadow.....the DSM, will stay around as long as Fraud is in office(and during removal too)

The DSM is always in the background and taking over the waves. People said it would dissapear after May, and now its creeping out everywhere like a noose, to hang the miserable traitors for their failure of an Iraq war sending thousands to their deaths. And failing to protect thousands at home and abroad. Those images never dissapear.....

[Missy M]

5. Yes they will and I would guess they already are...

when I start my ranting and raving about what happened most want me to shut up and talk about something else.

[psychopomp]

6. Probably some still waiting for death and the public is ready

to move on...I can sense it. The anguish of this last week was intolerable so it is natural to wish it to go away. Sadly, though, one cannot but observe that race seems to be the issue with class being a close second.

[leveymg]

7. Just until the next preventable disaster strikes.

Then, it'll be a replay of the same memes. Each time, people's compassion becomes more fatigued, until finally it doesn't matter what those in power do.

This is a Straussian strategy of rule by managed chaos - it's based in the real-life example of the complete takeover of power by the Nazis, who were also blundering fools.