Guest: “We’ve just been Cheneyed by a guy named Barack Obama who said he’d never do this… Every line was crossed….”
Host: “He’s such a charming liar, though.”
via Robert Murphy’s “Principled Leftists Realizing that Bush + Eloquence = Obama”
The grand bipartisan project — centralize vast federal power over everything — continues, but the going is thankfully getting tougher for the corrupt and corrupting:
Guest: What if the people out there screaming and breaking up the discussion at town meetings are correct? What if we have a situation in which you have secret meetings being held by the President — the absolute fascist nightmare — because fascism is defined as government combining with corporate powers to impose their profit-making regime on you.
What if, indeed.
I keep asking:
- What builds trust? What destroys it?
- What store of value is safe?
- What if the ideas of the Austrian economists are correct?
- What happens next? What most concentrates power?
- Why do we still pretend?
- What are you willing to do with your voice?
The answers to these questions take shape as individuals act and events unfold. I find it significant, and perhaps a little hopeful, that tiny signs are emerging from both the right and left (so-called) that folks are realizing that:
- The ongoing, damaging, dangerous power grab has nothing to do Republican versus Democrat because both parties are on board.
- The current regime is a corporatist, fascist nightmare. This federal power grab does not represent capitalism.
- It is time for each individual to wake up, engage, learn, and take action with a healthy distrust if not disregard for lying politicians and their media proxies.
