Friday, January 20, 2006
Mission Accomplished
I don't know that we can predict the calamity the Bush Dictatorship has brought on the US anymore than we can foresee the impact of its unbridled official criminality on the character of our fellow citizens in the years to come. Nor can we foretell the means of our dictatorship's demise anymore than citizens of Chile could that of Pinochet, Spain Franco, or Portugal Salazar.
What we can be sure of is that having destroyed our economy and emptied the vaults of the US Treasury, our ability to maintain previous standards is out of the question. How Americans will behave under deprivation and severely diminished expectations is anybody's guess. The fact that we will have to be exceptionally creative in adapting to our rapidly disintegrating state is a challenge we will face out of necessity, not foresight.
What we can be sure of is that having destroyed our economy and emptied the vaults of the US Treasury, our ability to maintain previous standards is out of the question. How Americans will behave under deprivation and severely diminished expectations is anybody's guess. The fact that we will have to be exceptionally creative in adapting to our rapidly disintegrating state is a challenge we will face out of necessity, not foresight.
