It's been made perfectly clear that a staggering number of Americans -- mostly Bush Apologists -- would prefer to have a powerful and omniscient government intruding upon their basic freedoms in order to smoke out the toe monsters lurking under their collective bed.
Until the last five years, I never pegged macho alpha-male Republicans for being cowards who would rather cave in to big government (which they claim to hate) than suffer the very slim chance that they'd be killed by a terrorist.
At some point in time, right-wing Americans with their tough-talking rhetoric and itchy trigger fingers -- the guys with "These Colors Don't Run" slogans magnetized to the ass-end of their Hummers -- became infantilized.
...and...
Right now, the terrorists are truly winning.
How could they not be? As soon as we were attacked by Bin Laden's underlings, policies were implemented by the Bush administration that empowered the government and its dominance over its subjects. You and me.
The selling of fear in the form of War on Terrorism has drugged America. When the drug wares off, as it will, we will wake up in a "safe" prison that we have let be built around us. Nice and safe, totally controlled, well padded from any "bad" news. Of course we will not be the ones in control nor make any decision on just what "bad news" is.
The true monsters are not lurking under our beds, the are sitting in the halls of power.
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