John Cusack on McCain and Right-Wing Shock Docturne (Must Read)

[Armstead]

John Cusack (yes that John Cusack) writes an excellent blog that touches on the real nerves in this election, and ties it into the bigger picture.

Pleeze read and recommend this.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-cusack/the-final-distraction-mcc_b_126672.html

The Final Distraction -- McCain Palin Worse than Bush

Excerpt:

John McCain is the Republican Party as much as Bush -- we need to be constantly reminded of the policies (and, yes, the crimes) that are threatening this country from within.

Obama must hit Republicans ten times harder. Let's hear about war profiteering, taxpayer-funded mercenary armies and privatizing core functions of state, habeas corpus and warrantless wiretapping and presidential signing statements, and Katrina and justice department politicization, and phony intel and Abu Ghraib, rendition and torture.

If the Democratic leadership wants to disregard its base and continue to disregard the rule of law, they deserve to lose...and will. Let's hope the Obama campaign doesn't come to this conclusion 10 days out. He needs to articulate his vision of the future, but he also needs to articulate a version of reality. The fiercest urgency is needed now.

But some other fundamentals seem to be lost in the frenzy. McCain is no maverick, but it is worth understanding why the rabid right wing is cheering his call for government "reform" and to change "how government works at every level."

McCain won't just be more of the same -- it will be worse than Bush-Cheney -- using the disasters of the past eight years and the actual crises we face to double down on the American Enterprise/Heritage Foundation vision of government that desires, as Grover Norquist said, to shrink government until "we can drown it in a bathtub."



I would recommend a return visit to the groundbreaking Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein.

McCain, who said he knows nothing about economics, will surely hand over the reins to the Friedmanites and neoconservatives who have sent the country on a path to ruin. Anyone looking at his team could tell you that. Palin and the interests she represents are even further to the right.....

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[Armstead]

1. kick

[chatnoir]

2. K&R

[Shine]

3. He's a smart and talented guy.

I've always loved John. :loveya:

[1corona4u]

4. I love John Cusack...

not just for this though...