Chris Floyd returns with his weekly op-ed: "There is a horrible scandal eating away the heart of the American body politic. Among the many corrupted currents loosed upon the nation by the Bush Regime, this scandal is perhaps the worst, for it abets all the others and breeds new pestilence, new perversions at every turn."So what is this scandal? Is it sending people off to foreign lands where we know they will be tortured? Is it our own torture centers overseas? Is it the arbitrary designation of "an enemy combatant"?
No. It's us.
Gore Vidal carries Chris' idea further:
"But then, [Benjamin] Franklin said, it will fail, as all such constitutions have in the past, because of the essential corruption of the people. He pointed his finger at all the American people. And when the people become so corrupt, he said, we will find it is not a republic that they want but rather despotism — the only form of government suitable for such a people."
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