Quote of the Day

"But even people who aren't partisan Republicans shy away from confronting the administration's dishonest case for war, because they don't want to face the implications.

After all, suppose that a politician -- or a journalist -- admits to himself that Mr. Bush bamboozled the nation into war. Well, launching a war on false pretenses is, to say the least, a breach of trust. So if you admit to yourself that such a thing happened, you have a moral obligation to demand accountability -- and to do so in the face not only of a powerful, ruthless political machine but in the face of a country not yet ready to believe that its leaders have exploited 9/11 for political gain. It's a scary prospect.

Yet if we can't find people willing to take the risk -- to face the truth and act on it -- what will happen to our democracy?" --Paul Krugman, New York Times, 24 June 03

We won't have a genuine democracy anymore. We'll have a proto-fascist plutocracy. Or something like that. It scares me, but what scares me more is that so few people seem to care about the slippery slope the US is on. My impression is that most Americans are numb. Not deep thinkers at the best of times, "we the people" have been zombified since 9/11. "Whatever" has become the national motto. There's just nothing happening that I can see--culturally, economically, politically--except paralysis and putrefication. There's an old saying: "a fish stinks from the head." If we don't have real "regime change" in 2004, the smell is going to get a lot worse. How long can people hold their noses?