Indefensible
National defense! National Security!! Weak on defense! Weak on security!! Defense! Defense!! Defense!!! Defense!!!! Defense!!! We need more defense!!!!!!
400 billion? That's not enough to protect ourselves from evildoers with boxcutters and dirty bombs? Watching the GOP (Zell Miller, Dick Cheney), on TV you would think that the security of this country was as rickety as a grass hut in a Vietnamese monsoon.
As they have for the past fifty years, the Republicans, (more correctly, the right wing of the party), have framed the national debate around the central issue of national defense. We are under constant threat. Danger lurks at every corner. We must keep our powder dry in anticipation of the imminent attack.
The people quail and quake. Candidates pander to the fearful multitudes. Pundits pontificate and bloviate their self-aggrandizing opinions upon the huddled masses who quietly succumb to the incessant marketing tactics of the slick and powerful, surrender their collective will to the perceived wisdom and competence of the powerful few, and march, in a state of delusional confusion, to the polls. Such is the state of "democracy" in America.
400 billion? That's not enough to protect ourselves from evildoers with boxcutters and dirty bombs? Watching the GOP (Zell Miller, Dick Cheney), on TV you would think that the security of this country was as rickety as a grass hut in a Vietnamese monsoon.
As they have for the past fifty years, the Republicans, (more correctly, the right wing of the party), have framed the national debate around the central issue of national defense. We are under constant threat. Danger lurks at every corner. We must keep our powder dry in anticipation of the imminent attack.
The people quail and quake. Candidates pander to the fearful multitudes. Pundits pontificate and bloviate their self-aggrandizing opinions upon the huddled masses who quietly succumb to the incessant marketing tactics of the slick and powerful, surrender their collective will to the perceived wisdom and competence of the powerful few, and march, in a state of delusional confusion, to the polls. Such is the state of "democracy" in America.
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