Chomsky's line is that this can happen quite suddenly (quasi-progressive and mainstream media questioning an administration), when the corp elite conclude Bush is actually destroying the economy, and is bad for business. There becomes a temporary alliance between dissidents and corp interests, when an administration damages both, as is happening now.
He describes the chronology of how this happened in the Nixon administration. If so, it's past time to happen again. The big payoffs have already been made, and the economy's going off a cliff. Even the usual defense spending spree won't rescue it, due to all the professional soldiering and subcontracting, rather than heavy manufacturing push of WWII. The majority of America is carefully and diligently left out of any participation for fear of political organizing that might happen, like a new labor wing of the Democratic party, so there's no employment push being made.
It can't last. The endgame has to either be total fascism or being thrown out of office. Bush/Cheney is acting like there's no '04 re-election, "grab what you can, regardless of political cost"...
If Bush/Cheny somehow decide to turn centrist at some point, the trick will be how to do it without getting impeached in a snowball of past crimes. He'd better start brushing up on the "let's all love each other" speeches...
The other trick will be watching the GOP trying new creative ways to blame the Clintons for everything that went wrong in '01-'04 |
