And thus in a way, this makes Democrats the worse of the bad Apples in the barrel, if only because their corruption is both mindless and has no purpose. It is electioneering without a clear political purpose, governing strategy or philosophy for how to move the country ahead, but it is also cowardly, selfishly greedy and politically suicidal.
At least Tom Delay, Dick Cheney and Jack Abramoff knew, and were committed to a robust political philosophy -- Ayn Rand's Objectivism -- however bankrupt that political philosophy may have been. Even as they too, just like their Democratic opponents, continued to suck the t*ts of the big dog money cash cows.
It is no secret that the Republican's political philosophy is to put in full retreat the "American march towards becoming a more perfect Union." It has been to reverse this 240-year old march to democratic perfection by stopping in its tracks any notion of a "common good" as being too costly for the taxpaying one-percent "job creators." However, as vulgar as this philosophy is, it at least IS a philosophy.
While the Republicans are being allowed to dismantle, sell piece-by-globalized piece, and then "burn down what remains of "the house of democracy" with their Ayn Rand philosophy of privatization, the Democrats, are busy engaging in tactical tiddlywinks, placing all of their eggs, not in a robust bag called a progressive political philosophy, but simply in a basket of prepositioning maneuvers readying themselves for the "hoped for" windfall of demographic inevitability? That is to say, the Democrats are essentially standing idly by playing playing three-card Monty, hoping to rope-in the large Hispanic influx, while the vile and vulgar Republican Revolution in privatization is , like "Proud Mary's" Big Wheel, still rolling on down the river, and succeeding beyond even the Republicans' own wildest dreams.
I have a theoretical footnote to this book that when coupled with the corruption of political money, helps explain everything. It is not one that most readers are going to want to hear, but I believe it to be as true as this book is true. It is this: Other than political money, there is only one other salient issue that leaps out into the open. It lies deep in America's political psyche and is potent enough to allow the Republicans to turn our nation into the corrupt, proto-fascist, privatized, gridlocked "national security state" that it has become right before our own eyes: And that issue is race.
Unless we are completely blind, dumb and stupid as a people, any fool can see that race is the system generator of all of America's evils, the "real" issue that animates American politics, and the only issue that lies at the base of the "so-called" Republican Revolution.
Do I need to spell it out for you: Strom Thurmond's Dixiecrats morphed into Nixon's Southern Strategy, which got Ronald reagan elected for two terms, and has since metastasized into the tail-wagging racist Republican/Libertarian Dog, called the "Tea Party? And every since Thurmond, race has not only been the issue just off center stage of the Republican/Libertarian agenda, but has also been "the gateway drug" to all other excesses in moral and political corruption and depravity in the American political system.
Even though race is pretty much out of the closet on the Republican side of the political equation, it still remains "deep in the closet" on the Democratic side, hiding safely behind our weak-kneed ineffectual mulatto Chicago politician President as the ultimate false symbol that America has become a post-racial society. However, so long as Americans keep trying to bury race continuously pushing it back into the subtext of American society, it is the one issue potent enough to bring this country down, one that the Republicans will continue to "milk" to their colossal advantage.
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