Wharfie, there's a simple answer to all of this. Vote the bum out (why anyone voted for him in the first place is a great mystery, and he's only there due to the mischief of Nader and Florida voter registration shenanigans anyway. We're stuck with a little napoleon who lost by 500,000 votes and tells us how things would be so much easier if he could just be the dictator. That anyone but the corporate elites and neo-con hegemonists will vote for him next time around is even more inexplicable).
Americans as a whole are easily pliable, susceptible to smooth sounding nonsense, and disinclined to spend time thinking critically. That is, until their own livelihoods are directly and obviously affected, by forces they often don't understand. Then whomever's in the way gets blamed, and gets taken out by one of the few tools available to the frustrated and frightened masses -- the vote. It's already starting to show up, to those who watch the signs.
This will accelerate by 2004. The domestic and world economy is about to undergo some serious shocks, with or without the imperialistic diversions of Boy George. Incumbency is an advantage, as will be the flush of tax free dividend money that will quite obviously be recycled to a 2004 Bush campaign in significant quantities if that proposal is passed. Regardless, there is an ironically parallel Bush II scenario unfolding here.
This guy is simply the worst and most dangerous leader we've had since Nixon. Dangerous to the world, and dangerous to us. By virtue of the people with whom he surrounds himself, and what he enables them to do. All that's left is for him to become the most corrupt. Jury's still out on that - Nixon has a good head start, heh heh. |
