The Perfect Drug and Collapse

The United States is beginning to reap seeds it began sowing when the Reagan Administration transformed the GOP into a government hating slash and burn entity that mortgaged the future of this nation in almost every respect one can consider. The recent collapse of a bridge in Minneapolis perfectly symbolizes the decay, as does the unprecedented national debt, the unprecedented number of citizens without health care, the unprecedented level of corruption and collusion with lobbyists, the unprecedented levels of corporate welfare for robber barons, the massive growth of the gap between rich and poor, and the declining access to quality education at all levels.

We have government officials who hate government. "By the people for the people" has been supplanted with "by the wealthy for the wealthy" and what services do the wealthy require?

We have a government obsessed with finding services it can eliminate, not what services it should provide. Reagan threw the mentally ill from our hospitals into our prisons (bet that saved money). The war on drugs has got to be the most naked emperor farce ever perpetrated by a government. I'm not advocating we turn the nation into junkies. I'm saying the approach is just flat out stupid. I have a nineteen year old daughter. She can get anything, anything at all, as easily as a glass of milk.

Our national infrastructure has atrophied in areas from health care to education to transportation to energy to corporate regulation. Regarding the latter, examples include the savings and loan fiascos along with the junk bonds and Charles Keating as well as Worldcomm, Enron, and the electricity fiasco in California, and we now pad the pockets of Halliburton with the blood of our own children to accomplish what?

The last three decades have crippled our government’s ability to provide for the public good. The Bush administration has greatly amplified the destruction begun by Ronald Reagan. I despise the current GOP and its selling its soul in a complete abandonment of responsible government in favor of governance for the highest bidders. We have a government suffering from an acute addiction to $$THE PERFECT DRUG$$. Anyone that knows the atrocities committed in Congress to serve the pharmaceutical empire knows who our government serves. Thanks to the GOP, our corporations write and pass our laws.

The scorpions are stinging the frog in an unconscionable lack of regard for the fundamental well being of the United States of America, seemingly unclear of the consequences. We have been butchered financially, internationally, constitutionally, educationally, scientifically, judicially, militarily, and spiritually.

The Bush Administration is an abomination of unprecedented proportion in the history of the country, and the outrage, long overdue, is mounting as blood and money continue to be squandered by cementheads who will not listen. Our Attorney General is a lying lap dog embarrassment to the Latino community, a spineless, pathetic shell of a human being who has lived his life on his knees. His testimony is grotesque and nauseating.

W has slipped to 29, indicating his support is decaying among the impossible to decay base that until now could not stop supporting him. Congress has slipped. Opinion of the Supreme Court has slipped. In other words, the nation’s opinion of its government is at an all time low.

Apologies for the long rant and let's talk solutions. I can make the easy 40,000 foot observation that will surprise no one. We need a system that elects and promotes competence in government and representatives that solicit and listen to expertise.

How do we do this? The GOP sold the country to our corporations. I am not expressing love for the Democrats, far from it. The best thing I can say about the Democrats is that they are not Republicans. The Democrats did not sell this country to Exxon, Pfizer, and Halliburton.

How do we get the country back? I say we vote BLUE in 2008 with a scream. We are not screaming Yes to Pelosi, and we can say that loudly. We are screaming No to anything Cheney, the emperor kings that think they own this nation. We nuke the GOP to the stone age.

I will close with the silver lining. The silver lining is that the country is truly getting mad as hell. Lord Cheney and the corporate empire have pushed the pendulum far. Cheney and his ilk seem to forget that they have their money because our system let them get it. Our system also lets them keep it.

That can change.