A very nice rant. As to why this guy gets to stay - we are entertained. There is no mass starvation, there is no massive body of unemployed that are united (or even interested in being identified as a body of unemployed), there is no evident mass disease. The deficit is too large to consider, the war in Iraq is too far away for most people to realise. The only things that can be blamed on the government-as-it-is right now are seen as small, isolated events. (Even as the figures indicate what a lie that is.)
In other words, it's bread and circuses here. We are still entertained by our televisions and our computers and our other input devices, so there's nothing to worry about, because nothing the government does affects us. We are, by and large, still living our lives to the same level of comfort as we were prior to Bush's "election", so there is nothing to worry about. Even if this viewpoint is incorrect, the things that are wrong are too distant to affect my life, so there's no reason to worry about them.
Therefore, since nothing is immediately wrong, and no one is immediately starving in the gutter because of the war in Iraq, no one will unseat the President. The people have the right to overthrow any tyrannical government, but this one is not seen as impinging on our lives. Nothing that it does is creating mass starvation in the streets, nothing it does is provoking the necessary anger and chaos to generate a popular impeachment/overthrow attempt.
We are entertained, and more to the point, we are sedated by our entertainment.
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Date: 2004-10-30 07:07 am (UTC)In other words, it's bread and circuses here. We are still entertained by our televisions and our computers and our other input devices, so there's nothing to worry about, because nothing the government does affects us. We are, by and large, still living our lives to the same level of comfort as we were prior to Bush's "election", so there is nothing to worry about. Even if this viewpoint is incorrect, the things that are wrong are too distant to affect my life, so there's no reason to worry about them.
Therefore, since nothing is immediately wrong, and no one is immediately starving in the gutter because of the war in Iraq, no one will unseat the President. The people have the right to overthrow any tyrannical government, but this one is not seen as impinging on our lives. Nothing that it does is creating mass starvation in the streets, nothing it does is provoking the necessary anger and chaos to generate a popular impeachment/overthrow attempt.
We are entertained, and more to the point, we are sedated by our entertainment.