Reply #84: People have said so much of what I feel [View All]

[jbnow]

No time compares to this. I think if we really knew the shady dealings around Iran-contra and our dealings in Central America in the 80's we'd be horrified...but so many of the players are part of this.

But it's not just lazy Americans or Dems in congress that allowed this. The bush gang got away with things they never would or could have if not for 9/11, that event was essential for this to evolve (devolve) this way. It had to be something HUGE and HORRIBLE and something we could see over and over and over...burnt into our brains, shifting our sense of reality.

Fear and uncertainty was the perfect setting to blind people with waving flags and God bless America. People hungered to feel safe again, protected. bush is not a good actor but the pseudo-cowboy protector was good enough to fool those hungry for the illusion of security and the revengeful god was just what they called for to protect us.

Then their plan could unfold...and it had to be planned. Did they really write the hundred of pages of the perfect acronym PATRIOT act in just a couple weeks?
And why this?
Just two weeks after the September 11 attacks, a secret memo to White House counsel Alberto Gonzales’ office concluded that President Bush had the power to deploy military force “preemptively” against any terrorist groups or countries that supported them—regardless of whether they had any connection to the attacks on the World Trade Towers or the Pentagon
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6732484/site/newsweek/

And would the people approve by such a majority or Congress vote to authorize so easily or the press be so unquestioning about the war on Iraq if this fear factor frenzy was not still so alive?

This is the most chillingly dangerous administration...but they needed 9/11 to be able to get so far with it before a larger number started noticing how bad they were.

I can't explain 2004 elections unless there was fraud because by then the shriveled cowboy was clearly naked. But even if Kerry really got more votes, don't know why so many still voted bush. I knew some smart moderate people who said they were voting for him so they didn't have to buy a gun to protect their families or some other stupid safety thing.

When bush was named president in 2000 I didn't guess he would be the worst. I thought he'd be stumbling, ineffective one term president and saw the worst danger as the Supreme Court.

I never ever thought I would see America becoming this. This would not even be a believable novel. We really won't survive three more years of this and it is going to take a lot to begin to undo the damage. We could use a miracle...but not from their false god.