"Democracy's Died in Darkness" -- as WaPo's Masthead Should Now Proudly Proclaim

[SorellaLaBefana]

For Democracy has died in the darkness of ignorance, of hatred, of greed and of fear. Supreme Leader's unhinged harangue to our nation's legislative body yesterday made this crystal clear.

"Mission Accomplished" as would say the President brought to power under the cover of the darkness of the night by a 5-4 Supreme Court decision in December 2000 that halted recounting of votes because, as Justice Scalia wrote, a recount would cast "a needless and unjustified cloud" over the legitimacy of Bush's "victory"


Re-read Koestler's "Darkness at Noon" (the non-literal but powerful and evocative translation of the title Sonnenfinsternis—Solar Eclipse) to see where we are headed with the cleansing of our government, of our body politic and soon of our entire population of the imaginary "Enemy Within" as Putin's Poodle consolidates his coup.

"This too shall pass." Sadly though, many of us will have passed before that comes to be.

Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just...
Tom Jefferson, Notes On The State of Virginia 1784