Tannishblog

Big Dick Cheney is well rested, after his recent health problems, and willing to take on the Democrats. I like his rhetoric, only because it’s so thin: It seems – again – that disagreeing with the elite by questioning our leaders integrity regarding the case for war is “one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired in this city.” That is, besides the lies that got us here in the first place.

Also, to question our leaders, after insurmountable evidence against the war in Iraq, is “making a play for political advantage in the middle of a war.” Perhaps “making a play for political advantage” during a national crisis is somehow more acceptable?

I think not.

I have to say I’m not surprised about the grafting charges brought against Philip H. Bloom. He is victim of the same mindset the rest of the warmongering elite suffers: the end justifies the means. Our sorry excuse for foreign policy screams out every time Our Favorite Shrubbery speaks about “staying the course,” that the ends justify the means. Bloodshed and torture are nothing against the ideals we are shoving down the throats of others. Our national penchant for no-bid contracts, in both Iraq and in Louisiana, cries real tears that the ends justify the means. Due process is only a bother when we are trying to rule the world. Now we find that entrepreneurs find any excuse to scarf up all the riches they can get, because the ends justify the means. What better end is there to the American mind?

Money is GOD! Power is currency to the Political elite; with power, one can get more money. Money is power to the business elite; with more money, one can but more power. Together, we see an endless reciprocality of privilege, manifesting a paradigm of greed, dishonor, and war. Such is the currency of our deity, and the virtues we give lip service to become our sacrifice to the God of the Almighty Dollar to whom America kneels in obeisance.

We, who by doing nothing default to acceptance of this God and his adherents. We, kept enslaved by materials wealth, drained of spiritual acumen, are the victims of the Money God to whom our leaders pray. By pretending to look away, by avoiding our civil duties of voting and political participation, we allow the unthinkable. Victims, yes, as well as enablers. We have no one to blame but ourselves.

I knew this when I voted against our useless president: twice. I know this even better now. Mr. Bloom is an adherent of a false God, but he is only a minor manifestation of a larger sickness. And, we may not recover.