Sunday, January 25, 2004
Say The Demon
An astounding number of people emailed about Wednesday's post, in which 201k suggested, more mischievously than seriously, that the Bush administration could refuse to step down from office if they lost the 2004 election and get away with it as far as the media was concerned.
Even more astoundingly, only one email (that wasn't filtered by our email program directly to the trash) rejected the notion. Many, many people thought it was not so farfetched. Who knew?
This is probably due to the fact that most 201k readers -- a majority of whom come here via the link on Media Whores Online -- are members of the choir.
But the writers were (mostly) far from paranoid partisans (again -- who knew?) and nearly all had essentially the same reason for their universe-bending cynicism: the complete lack of accountability of the Bush administration.
Pretty hard to argue with, especially given the long list of outrageous specifics they mentioned that we mostly speed-read, and which need not be repeated here. Sympathetic readers will no doubt have similar lists going.
But it was the specifics that stood out. That George Bush is protected by a bubble unlike anything this country has ever witnessed is documented as well as anything since "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." How often is such extreme cynicism so thoroughly grounded?
Years ago, while working as a payroll clerk for a large defense contractor whose products don't work, 201k overheard a janitor offer his Philosophy of Life, which was, "Dem guys upstairs, dey get everything, and we don't get nothin."
This was 201k's first exposure to class-based cynicism, and it made the opposite impression the philosopher intended, owing to the fact that he was a lazy, obese idiot who made almost $20 an hour (and this was in the early eighties) for hiding in a closet and eating donuts while 201k made half that paying him. In other words, the facts didn't bear out the charge.
But the free-ride that George Bush has got over the last four years, documentation for which is only a google-search away, is apparently enough to make more than a few people question the future of our very democracy.
One example stood out:
Even more astoundingly, only one email (that wasn't filtered by our email program directly to the trash) rejected the notion. Many, many people thought it was not so farfetched. Who knew?
This is probably due to the fact that most 201k readers -- a majority of whom come here via the link on Media Whores Online -- are members of the choir.
But the writers were (mostly) far from paranoid partisans (again -- who knew?) and nearly all had essentially the same reason for their universe-bending cynicism: the complete lack of accountability of the Bush administration.
Pretty hard to argue with, especially given the long list of outrageous specifics they mentioned that we mostly speed-read, and which need not be repeated here. Sympathetic readers will no doubt have similar lists going.
But it was the specifics that stood out. That George Bush is protected by a bubble unlike anything this country has ever witnessed is documented as well as anything since "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." How often is such extreme cynicism so thoroughly grounded?
Years ago, while working as a payroll clerk for a large defense contractor whose products don't work, 201k overheard a janitor offer his Philosophy of Life, which was, "Dem guys upstairs, dey get everything, and we don't get nothin."
This was 201k's first exposure to class-based cynicism, and it made the opposite impression the philosopher intended, owing to the fact that he was a lazy, obese idiot who made almost $20 an hour (and this was in the early eighties) for hiding in a closet and eating donuts while 201k made half that paying him. In other words, the facts didn't bear out the charge.
But the free-ride that George Bush has got over the last four years, documentation for which is only a google-search away, is apparently enough to make more than a few people question the future of our very democracy.
One example stood out:
The Republican Party spent $40 million of taxpayer money to prove that the last Democratic president lied about a marital infidelity. But no one is supposed to look into what happened on 9/11?
