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Edited on Mon Feb-06-06 03:38 PM by Mythsaje
"I'm a uniter, not a divider."
Remember those words? I do.
The problem is, they were a lie. Unless, of course, one believes that the man didn't realize what his agenda and subsequent policies would do to those who didn't vote for him in the first place. If you take into consideration that roughly 50% of the American public didn't elect him and that he had to go to the Supreme Court to be confirmed, it's pretty obvious that he was starting out with a serious handicap.
And in the past five years we've seen misstep after misstep, from the deception (or "bad intelligence") that led us into a war with a country that offered no real threat, to the Katrina disaster, a medicare bill that screws our seniors, a bankruptcy bill that screws the middle class, the barely opposed appointment of right wing idealogues to the highest court in the land, and the NSA domestic spying debacle.
In these five years only one thing has happened to unite us, and he squandered that political capital as quickly as possible. Since then everything has seemed calculated to drive a bigger wedge between the "left" and the "right."
The media is complicit in the catapulting of propaganda, yet the majority of Americans aren't happy with the way things are going. Millions of people march in protest and are ignored.
How long can this continue? The "left" (more like the middle, but that's neither here nor there) is getting more and more fed up with the lies, the manipulation, and the outright extortion that seems to be occuring within our government.
Something's gotta give. The last thing they can afford is to back the American people into a corner where they know they have nothing left to lose. The "sleeping giant" can awaken for a domestic crisis as well as an international one. And everything they are doing seems to be throwing kindling on the coals of what could turn into a mass explosion somewhere down the road.
Americans may have grown complacent, but they've been complacent before. Complacency isn't the same as apathy. Right now many don't understand that there's a need to care. But that could change in a heartbeat.
I think America's a powderkeg, and I think the neocons are throwing matches at it, one by one, trusting that their lackeys in the media will be able to stamp out the flames before one accidentally reaches the contents of the keg.
It can't go on forever. It just can't.
Mark my words...this is going to get ugly. If the mid-terms look as if they were stolen, people are going to get depressed, but they won't stay that way for long. Americans are fighters descended from fighters. If it gets bad enough, they won't take it lying down.
The sleeping giant is stirring, and it's going to be cranky when it wakes up.
Edited to fix a typo...
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