It may be the beginning of a new millennium but it feels more and more like the end of an age. The end of reason, the end of piety, the end of remembrance, the end of deference -deference that is, to anything but the rawest displays of money and power.
Decadence slides ever more surely into disaster. Still the music plays and, despite the rising price of fuel, the traffic flows. But the news from the frontier is bleak. And just behind the curtain of normalcy we sense that something unprecedented is being planned, something that will break with the past, something...unthinkable.
The following excerpt is found at The Free Press blog. Read the full essay by clicking here.
Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
July 30, 2007
It is time to think about the 'unthinkable.'
The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.
The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know.
But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.
The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them."
South Carolina League of the South
Decadence slides ever more surely into disaster. Still the music plays and, despite the rising price of fuel, the traffic flows. But the news from the frontier is bleak. And just behind the curtain of normalcy we sense that something unprecedented is being planned, something that will break with the past, something...unthinkable.
The following excerpt is found at The Free Press blog. Read the full essay by clicking here.
Will Bush cancel the 2008 election?
by Harvey Wasserman & Bob Fitrakis
July 30, 2007
It is time to think about the 'unthinkable.'
The Bush Administration has both the inclination and the power to cancel the 2008 election.
The GOP strategy for another electoral theft in 2008 has taken clear shape, though we must assume there is much more we don't know.
But we must also assume that if it appears to Team Bush/Cheney/Rove that the GOP will lose the 2008 election anyway (as it lost in Ohio 2006) we cannot ignore the possibility that they would simply cancel the election. Those who think this crew will quietly walk away from power are simply not paying attention.
The real question is not how or when they might do it. It's how, realistically, we can stop them."
South Carolina League of the South
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