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Denunciation of Democratic Party Apparat
By Sam Scharff (about the author) Page 1 of 6 page(s)
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The Democratic Party national "apparat" lacks the guts and sense to stand up for what our country was founded for. They have forgotten who we are.
I recognize that there are Democratic Congresspeople who have bucked the apparat, at least on occasion. And I understand that working in Congress is working in a cesspool, that to get anything passed may require swallowing something vile. People willing to fight on regardless, and to hang on as much as possible to principle, certainly deserve respect.
But I'm not talking about legislative tactics; I'm talking about how a free people can govern themselves, about whether our country can continue to be, however flawed, the home of a free people.
I'm glad to support the real Democrats, in Congress and nationwide, who work to win the battles in the EDs and state capitals and who work to change the national party.
But I will not support the apparat in any way whatsoever. And I will work to get others to also denounce them!
The apparat occupies itself with haggling over earmarks for bridges in Alaska while the neocons occupy themselves with shredding the Constitution. They intend to restructure the United States as a dictatorship. They dream of the United States as an empire, dominating the world. They intend to roll back the Enlightenment, to see a return to the Dark Ages of ruthless tyrannies engaged in endless war.
I do not exaggerate.
We face nothing less than a fascist assault on the Constitution. [fas] The Leo Strauss/Grover Norquist philosophical/strategic view codified the neocon's vision and laid out their planning.
A summary of Strauss' view:
# Perpetual deception of the citizens by those in power is critical
# they need strong rulers to tell them what's good for them
# those who are fit to rule are those who realize there is no morality
# there is only one natural right, the right of the superior to rule over the inferior
# separating church and state was the biggest mistake made by the founders
# secular society... worst possible thing ...encourages dissent, which in turn could dangerously weaken society's ability to cope with opposition,
# a political order can be stable only if united by an external threat, ..,if no external threat exists, then one has to be manufactured... [dru]
Consider: the current government is dominated by men who studied under Strauss or have acknowledged his influence on their thinking: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz; former Defense Policy Board chairman Perle; Shulsky of the infamous Pentagon Office of Special Plans; Abrams of the National Security Council;...
So the Strauss view exactly blueprinted what has come about.
Bill Moyers, interviewing Norquist: "You're on record as saying, my goal is to cut government in half in 25 years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bath tub." Norquist concurred; and he has said "... we intend to bankrupt the government to the point where they can basically only have the function of collecting taxes to run a national defense system." [moy]
This means that your access to a job, healthcare, sustenance is totally dependent on your standing with a corporate employer, a position from which you can be fired on a moment's notice - without any means of redress - at the whim of any manager [terrified eg an upcoming performance rating and the prospect of losing his/her job]. Working for small firms is no better; they are at the mercy of the WalMarts or are in desperate competition with one another...And getting "disappeared," at first rare, will become more and more commonplace.
Lawrence Britt, a scholar of fascistic regimes: "analysis of these seven regimes reveals fourteen common threads ..."
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism.
6. A controlled mass media.
7. Obsession with national security.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections." [bri]
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