The attack of the Patriotic Zombies - the grim reality of 2004?

[Room101]

The bold italicized is a snippet of a NATION article from September.

But fear, once it begins to eat away at a nation, once it is manipulated by an all-powerful government, is not easily eradicated by reason. To someone who feels vulnerable, who imagines himself as a perpetual victim, who detects enemies everywhere, no punishment to the potential perpetrators is too light and no measure to insure safety too extreme.

Can that be any truer? Folks we are not dealing with rational thinking people, we are dealing with patriotic zombies. We are living in a culture of manufactured fear and crisis were being proud has become a substitute to rational thinking. There is a electronic Berlin wall between the truth and the masses for the bigger the lie the more likely Joe and Jane will believe it.

Bush has become a national hell fire preacher of national security that uses dependency-creating language to induce helplessness and fear. But wait there is hope and salvation for “you are either with us or against us”, except me as your personal commander in chief and I will save you. This is pavlovian on such a grand scale, that I throw my hands up in horror.

The bold italicized is a snippet from Al Frankens’s Lies and the Lying Liars who tell them.

John Dilulio whom George W. Bush appointed the head of the white house office of faith- based and community initiatives wrote in a letter to Esquire magazine regarding Karl (dark Vader) Rove. “ There is no precedent in any modern white house for what is going in this one: a complete lack of a policy apparatus. What you got is everything – and I mean everything – run by the political arm. It’s the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis.”

According to Dilulio, Bush’s staff “ Consistently talked and acted as if the height of political sophistication consisted of in reducing every issue to it’s simplest, black and white terms for public consumption, then steering legislative initiatives or policy proposals as far right as possible” Dilulio quite the office in February of 2002.

Let me convey the obvious with a sense of discovery. Karl Roves political philosophy (i.e. the rights ) is not to be right, but to win. They do not have a desire to govern but a gratuitous lust to rule at any and all costs. Are we too busy trying to be right? Are we too timid to win?

Terry Mcauliffe and Tom Dashale should be running from a angry mob of pitchfork and torch carriers demanding their resignation for their timid coward ness. There political philosophy at least in Practice, is not to win, but to simple stay in power, hiding out in the political safe house until the storm ends. Where does this leave us? It seems that I have more questions than answers.

There is a reason many have left the Democrats to be with the fearless Greens, although this time around the greens should not run a candidate there is too much at stake. I’m not being pessimistic I’m being blunt. I’m ready for the fight of my life come high noon, when I turn around I want to see the Democratic establishment not a bunch of tumbleweeds.

[Zomby Woof]

1. Zombie basher!

:evilgrin:

[madfloridian]

2. Suskind's reply to DiIulio's retraction:

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2002/021202_mfe_diiulio_1.html

SNIP..."On October 24, John DiIulio, a former high-level official in the Bush administration, sent the letter below to Esquire Washington correspondent Ron Suskind. The letter was a key source of Suskind's story about Karl Rove, politics and policymaking in the Bush administration, "Why Are These Men Laughing," which appears in the January 2003 issue of Esquire. On Monday, December 3, White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said that the charges contained in the story were "groundless and baseless." After initially standing by his assertions, DiIulio himself later issued an "apology." Esquire stands strongly behind Suskind and his important story....."

Guess he sold his soul to Rove.

;(

[DBoon]

3. Sold his soul or...

found a severed horse's head in his bed.

[madfloridian]

4. Yep.

Like the ones who were "convinced" to vote for the Medicare bill or "else".