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Flame » in reply to re: "the people in the marches"

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Robert — (archived)

There's nothing like a plausible typo to get me good. I interpreted "marches" in the old sense of something like "hinterland"..

OK, so let's talk about your anti-American American narrative, the story about the traitorous "peace marchers and activists". It's pretty damn silly, and the paradox is obvious. Unless you want you to try and sell some lame pop psychology story about "self-loathing", what we've got here is something that's in fact quintessentially American: Millions of Americans are mightily pissed off with their government and they're exercizing to the hilt their right and their duty to say so. A subset of those, with a more discriminating palette for dissent, are mightily pissed at the interlocking power structure of American government and business. Mightily-pissed Americans are mightily-patriotic Americans.

After six years, who's the government? Republicans, and what's got you so steamed is that after almost six years, a deeply patriotic anti-government protest is by definition an anti-Republican protest. Tough, but you know the one about "be careful what you ask for, you just might get it". You got it. How do you like it now?

I'm one of the mightily-pissed. I think that my government has committed too many immoral and destructive acts in my name to cover with the fig leaf "war on terror". I think that my government has been thoroughly corrupted by ambitious politicians, pursuing an anti-American agenda of creating a "permanant Republican majority", a strategy based on fearmongering and shamelessly exploiting the "war on terror" to consolidate power. I think that my government has been further corrupted by big business, through the instrument of the GOP, to the point where our society's become an oligarchy. I think that my government is in the hands of dangerously stupid or deranged people. I think my government has betrayed at every turn its compact with the American people.

After six years, there's no doubt in anybody's mind whodunnit. The Republicans dunnit. Enough is enough.

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