No, okay, you're absolutely right. (*Again* with the reasonable...!) In the heat of the moment I elided two separate points.
1) Bush/Cheney are gnawing away at the heart of government, and even with their opponents putting up a fight over scrutiny I'm not sure there's anything anyone can really do - just sigh and maybe make a couple of wistful comments to the press as the administration's nomination heads off to wreak more havoc wherever they're sending him. This shit is going to take generations to fix. That's assuming it can be fixed at all, so long as someone doesn't take Dick to see Revenge of the Sith and he starts getting ideas about literally ripping apart the Senate.
2) Hardly anyone apart from the odd apoplectic blogger (including, now, me) appears even to be making a peep about this propaganda thing - despite the fact that, as I'm sure you know, the US actually has laws specifically forbidding the Government from using propaganda on its own people.
Also, as we know, the fact that people don 't support the policies of Bush/Cheney/Vader etc rarely stops them from implementing them. I sincerely hope that the Democrats will soon be a position to challenge all this - i'm just concerned that too much damage will have been done and it might be hard to reverse it. (I'll be intrigued to see how long it takes, if indeed it's ever possible, to see GWB's presidential papers...)
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Date: 2005-06-06 09:42 pm (UTC)1) Bush/Cheney are gnawing away at the heart of government, and even with their opponents putting up a fight over scrutiny I'm not sure there's anything anyone can really do - just sigh and maybe make a couple of wistful comments to the press as the administration's nomination heads off to wreak more havoc wherever they're sending him. This shit is going to take generations to fix. That's assuming it can be fixed at all, so long as someone doesn't take Dick to see Revenge of the Sith and he starts getting ideas about literally ripping apart the Senate.
2) Hardly anyone apart from the odd apoplectic blogger (including, now, me) appears even to be making a peep about this propaganda thing - despite the fact that, as I'm sure you know, the US actually has laws specifically forbidding the Government from using propaganda on its own people.
Also, as we know, the fact that people don 't support the policies of Bush/Cheney/Vader etc rarely stops them from implementing them. I sincerely hope that the Democrats will soon be a position to challenge all this - i'm just concerned that too much damage will have been done and it might be hard to reverse it. (I'll be intrigued to see how long it takes, if indeed it's ever possible, to see GWB's presidential papers...)