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I wonder how these people are going to vote in the upcoming presidential election.

The Democrats are barking up the wrong tree. Again.

They’re howling for accountability. They’re demanding an explanation out of Karl “I didn’t do it” Rove for his role in the outing of Valeria Plame. They’re slavering for his resignation.

Not a chance in Hell of that.

Karl Rove is above the law; he is untouchable, and he knows it. No amount of slandering or evidence of wrongdoing will rein him in. No amount of decency and reasonableness can overcome the arrogant abuses of power that is Karl Rove. Why? Because the Bush administration was build by Karl Rove. He’s the kingpin and keystone of BushCo and anyone with anything to gain therein will protect him. Karl Rove is ruthless, merciless and completely without morality. No one with a healthy fear of the laws of this country would blow the cover of a CIA operative. No one with a speck of decency would manipulate the tragedy wrought by the fall of the twin towers and forge it into a political crowbar. No one with any love for American ideals would turn this nation into an imperialistic miltary aggressor. No one, that is - but Karl Rove.

Our Democratic party is at the wrong tree because they form tactics based upon their principles, assuming an adversary of similar attitudes. But the people they face do not have principles. Our current political majority is in this game only for their own aggrandizement, willing to sacrifice an entire generation for the expansion of American Empire and for control of future, dwindling energy. As the Democrats ponder a means toward an end, their opponents ponder an end without worrying about the means.

The Democratic Party actually cares about people - that’s its weakness - so much so that it tries to be everything to everybody. The democratic ideal wants Government to be a nurturing entity that offers gentle assistance to the “tired and downtrodden”, to accept the burden of rational dialogue in the best interests of the American people.

In contrast, the Republican Party cares only about power, so much so that they aggressively seek money constituencies and choose to represent only the very richest Americans. Republicans want government to protect the interests of abstractions like corporations, manifest destiny, and militarization, and in doing so they create the “tired and downtrodden” as they defer the burden of taxation to the less affluent and promote a culture of unbalanced privilege upon the American people.

The Democrats try to be rational, using logic to persuade and the Republicans are powerful and use intimidation to coerce. It is not surprising that Democratic methods of heedfulness and rationality is doomed to fail. Karl Rove, as the quintessential power monger, doesn’t care for such niceties as debate and compromise, and his goose-stepping Republican Party will follow him anywhere.

As BushCo attempts to remake the new world order in its twisted image, the rest of America is trying to tape together the widening cracks of Jeffersonian ideology. This is a dark time for us. History will find little difference between the Fascism of the mid twentieth century and the neo-Conservatism of the early twenty-first. Both are ideological extremes with similar goals. Remember, Adolph was a popular leader, too. How does the world view his policies today? The same will be said of George W. Bush. Mark my words.