Will Kerry’s Flub Outweigh Neocon Blunders?
by Jeff Davis
In the last week before the 2006 election, the neocons have found a last straw to grab onto thanks to the blundering of John F. Kerry. Will Kerry’s insensitive flub about uneducated Americans winding up in Iraq make any real difference or will a continuing chain of neocon blunders be remembered by voters on election day?
We have endured a pointless war with thousands of dead and tens of thousands of maimed Americans, a military strained to the breaking point and an economy that has outsourced millions of manufacturing jobs and seen Ford and GM spiral toward bankruptcy. Real unemployment in “uncooked” figures is around ten per cent. We have badly maintained freeways and massive power outages every summer. Hundreds of thousands of black New Orleans refugees have spread crime in every city foolish enough to accept them. New Orleans is still not rebuilt over a year later. An attack on Iran the day after the election is an alarming possibility. Our government has given itself the authority to spy on us without warrants (even though previous presidents during world wars did not need this much power). Our government now can torture people and the president can declare any one of us an “enemy combatant” who could be dragged out of his home in the middle of the night and “disappeared” into one of those foreign prisons, where torture is commonplace.
Our freedoms are being erased with lightning speed. While it may have seemed like a good idea to white conservative patriots to have an all Republican government, we have seen with our own eyes abuses which are leading rapidly to tyranny. Perhaps we need to go back to a gridlocked government to slow down the loss of liberty. (more…)