America Dreams On -- After one passes the threshold of realizing that nothing can wipe the historical truth of the Bush neocon regime from the world, and one must accept it as reality, one's ideals are shattered by seeing America become a name hated around the world and associated with torture, bombing, killing, extortion, lying, arrogance, destructiveness, ignorance, etc., then all that is left is the historical view. Every day one could list dozens of links to stories about the rampant crimes of the Bush administration day after day. After a while, what is the point? It has been said a million times. It's the same story over and over. Even the tiny glimmer of truth that seeps through the corporate media to the mass audience is so outrageous the neocons should be run out of Washington in tar and feathers. Just the fact of the administration's grab of power in 2000 under such unseemly circumstances should have been too much for a democratic population to accept. But accept it did, and once so compromised, there was little mettle left to stand up to the further abuses of power that would follow one after another over and over day after day. Now the people are so numb, or so it appears, that the regime has succeeded in making its corruption the status quo. The supposedly quick operations in Afghanistan and Iraq have now become permanent occupations. So take your pick, from a thousand links of stories about the transformation of the US from a republic to an empire. Pick from a million outrages. A president who grins as he seizes power in blatant mockery of the very idea of democracy , who knows almost nothing about the world beyond Texas and New England, yet has no qualms about bombing whichever of them his cronies want him to bomb, an administration that forces the Environmental Protection Agency to lie to New Yorkers about the fact that the air was poisoning them after 9/11. You pick it, which of a million outrages will you pick? It's all repetition now. The only thing left is the destruction of the empire. It is already happening. Now we will watch it deconstruct. Will the neocons draw it out with desperate war mobilizations, like Hitler did, and like so many other tyrants have before? How many people will they take with them? They will not go gently. The story has been told, over and over. He who has ears, let him hear. Every day people are learning the truth about the Bush administration. A wave is moving through the population. More and more people are finding themselves in the footsteps of the machine and are realizing that they are among the outsiders, the victims of the empire. The story has been told. Now people can take turns listening to it. More and more people are taking action to oppose the specific outrages of the Bush administration's initiatives on many different fronts. Outlawing voting machines with no receipts; locally outlawing the Patriot Act; suing the state government over voter's rights in Ohio. People are becoming more outspoken. Legitimate voices are breaking through the corporate media screen. Washington D.C. now has Air America. There is much to be hopeful about. The end of this insanity will come through millions of individual acts by common sense Americans who hold to the old American ideals of justice, freedom, accountability, democracy, honesty, integrity, hard work, and want to restore them in some meager capacity to American governance. It will happen through millions of Lilliputians working together to bring down the giant Gulliver. Keep on keepin' on. Remember your grandchildren.
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