Keep Them Doggies Movin'

Seems every month for four years many progressive friends, bloggers, acquaintances, have stated with each new story, "this" should, could, would bring down the Bush administration. Enron, WMD, Bush's TANG service, the August 2001 PDB, KBR-Halliburton contracts, Valerie Plame, Abu Gharib, Gitmo, torture, Gannon/Guckert, dozens upon dozens of lies, illegalities, and fraud beginning with the Bush appointment in 2000. Barely a stir in the house, or congress, or the average Joe. Why? The nation shrugged when Bush was appointed in 2000, most continue to shrug. The extremist push to place Bush in power four years ago had a motive, now answered for some of us, others haven't even asked.

It is not government of the people by the people, and hasn't been for a very long time and was always shaky at best. Honest balloting has been questionable for decades and now - totally worthless. With sufficient E-voting and friends who deliver, it makes no difference whether we the people vote or not. The results are tallied long before the casting of ballots. The red herd/blue herd, though they're disapprovin', keep them doggies movin'.

I have watched "apathy" for a long time. From the somewhat predictable June and Ward Cleaver '50s, through the turmoil and changes of the '60s and the numbness of the '70s. Enter apple rouge cheeks and affable wordster, bonnie Bonzo Ron, a gipper face for America. Grampa, benovlent but stern, do as you're told, be happy, soon we'll be living high and wide, greed is good, suckers. Perfect player for a nation with exaggerated pride and self-confidence, personified in political and religious leaders. By god, we schmucks can't suck billions out of S&Ls but hot damn our leaders sure can. Anyburton can do it, cook the books and screw 'em. Saddam a monster for killing thousands but between two Bushes with a Clinton we can kill a million, bring 'em on, because we know we're free. Makes people write songs.

Will another war in Iran and/or Syria "wake up" people? To what? That the rulers murder for profit behind God and flag? Forget it. The "people" are convinced they're sharing Bush's image of God's democracy and killing the bad guys. Few before them cared about the millions left dead in Slavery, in Native America, Southeast Asia, and Latin America and they don't care about the swarthy folks in turbans and hijabs. Enter the new age racism/bigotry aka Multicultural Madness: How Western Civilization has been turned upside down in one generation. Joseph Farah, the ragmaker of WND, an Arab-American Christian who is white enough. Might as well admit it, for the American majority, unless you're white (or close to it) and love Jesus and the flag, then you are rarely more than savage - barbarian - evil - and smell bad too. Plenty of non-whites willing to twist what America wants to hear and, ca-ching ca-ching, make it seem downright virtuous with heaven waiting at the end of the ride.

What will it take to "wake up" the people. The draft? Forget it. The bulk of the draft families in this country will be silently relieved to send Johnny marching off to war. He's a pain in the ass at home and mom and pop can finally be proud they're contributing to the "greater good" of mankind, liberating and democratizing and Christianizing what's left of the world. Too much of the public buys every line BushCo feeds them. They're bored. They need lots of drama to feel they have a life. Bush personifies much of America. Corrupt, cruel, gutless, backward, manipulative, dead of spirit but somehow proud of it. Bush Country.