Gresham’s Law in action.
Well, no, maybe not. But watch the numbers flicker by on this cost of war clock and see how every second drives more money into imperial dreams and the Halliburton Highway and out of ideas a sinking, poverty-stricken nation could use. —Or more usual nostrums, like health care, education, public housing…
Actually? Maybe so, but in another way. It’s a limb, but I’m willing to test its weight: maybe the whole idea of bad X driving out good X has a lot to do with this very visceral frustration, one that’s growing and souring in more bellies than mine. “Anyone who can beat Bush has my vote.” Jesus. Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations.
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Sorry, I just did a circuit of the blogs and I'm feeling frustrated that the most radical project I see on the American left is getting people to understand that a president who starts unprovoked wars and runs up trillion-plus dollar debts on regressive tax cuts might not be a very good leadership choice.
Which is a measure of just how poisoned and surreal political reality has become. Did you watch the Franken-O'Reilly contretemps I linked to? Franken is visibly upset—for the very reasons anyone left of Mussolini should be upset: watching truth, morality and common decency trampled with the condescending and self-serving excuse that it is all for our own good is sickening.
But you have to start somewhere. Even if the right keeps moving the goalposts.
I feel sickened by O'Reilly and sympatize with Franken. Sickened that acquaintances and family members are taken in by the outright lies and so precious few people even seem to care.
How Bad Is It?
I voted Nader in the last two elections. This time around, I'm hoping for Dean. I hold my nose with Kerry. I still reject Lieberman (I mean it, I'll write in Bullwinkle). So how did I leap Kucinich? Well.... Maybe...
When you find somebody with the stones to slap away the next hand that tries to move the goalposts Right, get back to me, Kev. :(