Just when you think it can't get any worse...

As depressing as it is, I suppose that I should be glad that these issues are getting more attention. There is no joy in any of this though, despite the high pitched wailings of many on the right, ie, Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter. None of this, not one second of any of it, could possibly make any caring, thinking person "gleeful."

First up - The article written by RFK for Rolling Stone Magazine, illustrating the many ways that Republicans stole the elections in 2004. With detailed footnotes of the many incidents of election fraud, where people have been actually tried and convicted in several cases, perhaps people will listen now. I doubt it, of course.

I'm entirely discouraged. RFK Jr. will be written off as just another bitter liberal whiner, and hey, after all, it's in "Rolling Stone," not a REAL paper.

Second issue of the day - This report from the Cato Institute, a conservative think tank which prefers the label "libertarian." This 31 page report recounts the ways in which the Bush Administration has violated the Constitution. It's long but written in everyday language and is worth a read.

Third up - Iran. No news to most of us, but Mr. Bush really has no desire to talk to Iran. They're all liars anyway and it's far more rewarding to the masculinity to just bomb the hell out of em. So we'll offer to talk on conditions they'll never meet, and that way it can be all their fault when the bombs drop. Axis of evil, dontcha know? Weapons of mass destruction. Over there so not over here. Terraists! BOO!

Fourth - Haditha. It's too painful to even go there. We know this script already, don't we? An unethical incident. Massive coverup. Long investigation. White House had NO idea, imagine! Some poor soldier goes to jail as scapegoat to soothe everyone's troubled mind, end of story. Just like Abu Ghraib, and all I can think is where did these grunts get dog collars? Not something a soldier is likely to pack from home, is it? Are dog collars a big thing in Iraq? Just wondering.

I could go on and on. Unitary executive. Nepotism. Insider trading. Tax cuts and record deficits. Apathy. Greed. Misdirection. Racism. Misogyny. There's so much material it defies comprehension.

None of this is news. It's all been around for anyone to see since the first election was stolen. There will be no outcry, little coverage, and what coverage there is will be spun to make the story and the storyteller ridiculous.

And it will happen again, in small towns in Iraq, in Iran, in Afghanistan. More incompetent cronies will be appointed to positions of importance, and perhaps, people will die. Americans will die. The middle class will fade away, and America will be left with a ruling class and a slave class. In November the elections will be rigged, and again in 2008 because these people are evil and relentless and powerful and monied.

It makes me sick. The machinery of fascism will roll over the country and the good ole American people won't even realize it til they wake up one day and it's the Fourth Reich.

I'm literally sick to my stomach. God, I hope I"m wrong, please, God?