Saturday, April 15, 2006
Empire of Fear
"Fear is the nuclear warhead of politics. An eternally tempting weapon for the demagogue that efficiently annihilates dissent and cauterizes opposition, but only at a terrible price.
By sinking to that level -- by eagerly seizing and using this nuclear flashblinding option for petty, partisan gain for the last 20 years -- the GOP has unleashed horrors into the world that will take generations to put right. They have gained power, but only at the expense of destroying anything that was ever noble about their movement.
Only by enlisting the labor of the scum of the Earth to help them rip down our two-century-old democracy and erect on its bones an Empire of Fear. Only by deliberately pumping into the body politic the toxic wastes that mark them as the true and eternal enemies of democracy. Only by keeping America so afraid that is stops being America anymore."
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2006/04/we-have-nothing.html
By sinking to that level -- by eagerly seizing and using this nuclear flashblinding option for petty, partisan gain for the last 20 years -- the GOP has unleashed horrors into the world that will take generations to put right. They have gained power, but only at the expense of destroying anything that was ever noble about their movement.
Only by enlisting the labor of the scum of the Earth to help them rip down our two-century-old democracy and erect on its bones an Empire of Fear. Only by deliberately pumping into the body politic the toxic wastes that mark them as the true and eternal enemies of democracy. Only by keeping America so afraid that is stops being America anymore."
http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2006/04/we-have-nothing.html
