re: Its kind of interesting............with Bush's win, the neocons are strutting like roosters in an effort to show their supremacy. In the process, some interesting stuff is coming to the surface.
What's a relief to me is that now Iraq is a red voter war. I used to put the blame squarely on Bush... now there are a whole lot of folks that are responsible for the 38 kids that got killed this past week. The red folks voted for those soldiers deaths; in exchange for what?
re: When you start to put it altogether........the Bush win, the decrease in newspaper circulation, the NASCAR ascendancy, the decline of book readership, lowered SAT scores, the region growing the fastest is the least informed..etc, you begin to realize its the dumbing down of America. Hell! Most of the Bush supporters can't spell.......even with the help of spellcheck!
Well, I don't know if I buy into the red state/blue state thing. There are a lot of good folks in the South; generous, kind, empathetic. But I do buy into the red voter/blue voter thing.
And I think you are right, the US has peaked. As the only "superpower" that's pretty obvious. Where can you go but down? Look at the dollar, it's a perfect proxy for our standing in the world, and it's tanking. Look at our debt and trade balance; it's unsustainable. Look at the declining respect throughout the world. These elements will come together and Bush is going to bankrupt the country, if not in the next four years, sometime within the next 10. It's over; it's not if, it's when. He's the worst political and fiscal manager this country has known.
But maybe Bush is just the last in a long line of despotic leaders that proved the axiom that "power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely". Every other Empire was destined to fail, why should this surprise us?
John |
