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eventually hybrid systems of government were created merging kings with prime ministers and parliaments and a new form of representational government took hold the us government was born at the confluence of a number of serendipitous forces initially formed by those fleeing religious persecution it was a brand new world full beyond measure of immense natural riches free from the limited land mass and resources of europe and the stifling weight of history and their stodgy traditions america was a clean slate a chance to start anew to get it right to create the most perfect form of government that humans could possibly dream up and dream they did the constitution that came out of the late 1700s has become the gold standard of good government not perfect but better than anything else that has been around even though it has been amended 27 times with a 28th amendment proposed one that would make all laws applicable to everyone these adjustments have allowed the government to change in response to a rapidly changing world some of them have been foolhardy no 18 prohibition but others have been true to the finest expressions of the best of humanity no 13 abolition of slavery and no 19 women s suffrage the great social experiment that is the united states of america was in full bloom and doing very well indeed scientists will tell you that the best experiments are those which are conducted in a closed system that is an environment where everything is carefully controlled and random outside forces kept to a minimum even under the best of circumstances a running experiment will start to degrade as entropy creeps in and wear and tear causes deterioration our government has been beset with destabilizing forces from inside and out from those which occur in nature to those created by our own shadow natures it seems the worst forces that befall our nation and disrupt our constitutional government are those created by ourselves in the past century two devastating world wars a number of smaller but still very significant skirmishes korea vietnam iraq have caused great stress the threat of nuclear annihilation or environmental catastrophe has been shaping policy through most of this century but most insidious it seems are the forces of greed and religion they form a double headed serpent and it is at the nexus of those two where the most damage is done the past two decades have seen the ascendency of greed and religion in our government at a level that can scarcely be comprehended like some kind of virulent zombie virus it has taken over vast segments of the population and most of congress turning them into blathering idiots and malignant ne er do wells complicated by a supreme court that has some of the most backward thinking regressive conservatives around the complete corruption of our government by money has been aided and abetted by heinous abominable rulings such as citizens united which virtually assured the democratic system will be irretrievably choked and debased by an enormous influx of special interest monies and corporate meddling religion and in particular christian fundamentalism has also insinuated itself into our legislative system at all levels like a many headed hydra it manifests itself in an appallingly large number of ways from advocating to pharmacists to refuse to dispense birth control because it violates their freedom of religious expression to taking over school boards and forcing changes to their curricula to include bogus intellectually untenable pseudo sciences such as intelligent design to doing everything they can to prevent certain segments of the population from exercising their right to vote using their religious beliefs like a shield they cowardly pass preposterous laws designed solely to prevent women from exerting control over their reproductive destinies by forcing them to undergo unnecessary medical procedures such as ultrasounds and enacting biased draconian regulations that make it nearly impossible for planned parenting agencies to legitimately and lawfully provide needed and wanted services we have seen the wealth of this nation being concentrated into the top 1 of the population while everyone else considers themselves lucky if they just tread economic water this has caused this wealthy segment to tighten and consolidate their control over the republican party which is essentially working for the koch brothers and the dick cheneys of the world wars are started under the flimsiest of pretenses bolstered by blatant lying and disinformation and private corporations rake in the profits sure there are many evil people in this country who will gladly take this nation down a pathway to complete destruction if it meant getting their political agenda in place all this is ultimately made possible by an uneducated disinterested electorate for whom critical thinking and skepticism are unknown concepts too many people are more than willing to let fox news or glenn beck or rush limbaugh or dozens of other conservative blowhards tell them exactly what to think and do they find it much easier to hate people who are different from them and they make these other people convenient easy scapegoats for the awful things their legislators who they themselves had voted into office do to the quality of their life and the complete ruination of the future of their children they just don t give a crap and are too stupid to care the drama going on in this country now the government being held hostage by a gang of 30 or 40 zealots blinded by their own radical ideology to the damage they re doing and the upcoming threat of a debt ceiling crises which nearly all knowledgeable economists in this country agree would be a complete and unmitigated disaster on a global scale is unprecedented certainly in my lifetime i have never seen the country so thoroughly polarized even back in the worst days of the vietnam war when our society was nearly ripped apart by a costly tragic war which we eventually lost these tea baggers don t care how much damage and hardship they inflict on millions of people or the millions and millions of dollars that will be shamefully squandered by a completely unnecessary government shutdown the only thing they care about is getting their own way and they don t care how many lives are wrecked in the process sadly i m beginning to think the great social experiment in representative democracy that is the united states of america is starting to wind down to sag and break apart under the weight of its own misdoings and corruption our system of government is being poisoned by right wing ideologues and religious zealots who are pulling everyone down into their toxic cesspool of psychotic paranoia and dissolution i don t see a way out for america to save itself we may come out the other end of this somewhat intact but we will be so changed that we will no longer be the america we once were posted by bunnyman at 11 42 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels american culture american politics bad behavior conservatism corruption debt democracy fundamentalism government republicans shutdown tea party world culture world politics world s end tuesday september 10 2013 the syrian minefield the dire situation in syria has exploded on the world stage and the global reaction to it has quickly become the geopolitical version of an m c escher painting you know what those are mind bending drawings of staircases that go around and around but end up nowhere or buildings with unending twists and turns which also lead nowhere likewise the political twists and contortions that are still going on also seem to expend a lot of time energy and media bandwidth but fail to go nowhere it all started several weeks ago as the bashar al assad dictatorship in syria feeling threatened by a rebel insurgency that wants to see it gone turned chemical weapons on its own people we all cringed at the photos and videos of the dead and dying syrian civilians suffering the ravages of what has to be some of the most horrific and awful weapons ever created next to nuclear president obama being the highly moral person he is was thoroughly appalled and horrified over what had happened and rightfully condemned the government in syria for violating a u n proscription against the use of chemical weaponry saying the assad regime crossed a red line obama left it quite clear that he felt a military response against such an atrocity should not only be appropriate but almost mandatory obama expected the american people and the rest of the world to be properly and instantly outraged and to fall in line in support behind him in moving forward with a military strike which would cripple or eliminate syria s capability to gas their own helpless innocent people what he got instead of support was virtual silence obama was all set to go ahead with the attack using his powers as head of the executive branch without consulting congress there was a clear precedent to this when george w bush decided to invade iraq about a decade ago on a wildly dubious and ultimately untrue basis of saddam hussein s weapons of mass destruction which proved to be something between astonishing incompetent intelligence information or just plain old fashioned lying through your teeth but conspicuous in its absence in the wake of a terrible atrocity was a groundswell of incensed clamoring for immediate military action where were all our allies in the west canada the uk france germany australia even poland surprisingly the prickly french who seem to delight in taking a contrary position to whatever the u s is taking were the most agreeable to a forceful response to assad the american people while recoiling in disgust to the human tragedy were also recoiling from the prospect of dipping our toes in another middle east quagmire with iraq and afghanistan being prominently featured in their reasoning baffled and caught off balance by the blatant non response to a humanitarian catastrophe obama still went ahead and tasked the pentagon with coming up with a plan of action and risk assessment for what was being portrayed as a surgical strike this whole syria issue has taken on a life of its own it has split into two different news stories the first being the gas attack itself and the second being the political reaction to the gas attack the second story has grown so rapidly that it has overtaken the original event relegating it to the status of an afterthought or a mere detail in a bigger picture it has produced some very unusual and novel things like republicans calling for calm and restraint in the face of an opportunity to attack another country which is like a starving dog turning down a big piece of filet mignon or democrats screaming to let the bombs fly sooner rather than later syrian president bashar al assad looked like a character out of a john waters movie on an interview today he denied that chemical weapons were ever used by his forces in fact he made some vague unsupported assertions that his military forces were the ones who got gassed assad is quite a creep and looks like he would be most comfortable in the back row of an x rated movie theater when asked about the deaths of the people he is supposed to serve he acted like he just got caught by his wife making out with a trashy waitress he met at the downtown damascus hooters restaurant deny deny and deny some more the situation is very fluid and things change every day now the russians have come up with a proposal to put all of syria s chemical weapons under international control to be eventually destroyed this may be an out for all concerned that avoids a military conflict the american people are staunchly against any military involvement and many make the slippery slope argument that a limited surgical strike will lead to american boots on the ground and another afghanistan in the making there are so many variables so many possible ways this can play out if congress does give the go ahead and the u s goes through with the attack how will the assad regime react how will his neighbors feel about another country lobbing rockets at someone right in their back yard will syria pop a couple of missiles over the fence on israel would a surgical air strike against assad s chemical weapons capability actually do any good it would be virtually impossible to cripple his entire chemical weapon stockpile and would he then be much more willing to use whatever remains if congress says no to the whole thing would that encourage other dictators to use chemical weapons because obviously they could do that and get away with it what will a no vote do to american prestige and influence all over the world but especially in a region where fear and intimidation are the main glues that hold together a fragile peace what will that do to the obama administration as its second term plays out will it cripple an already lame duck president and compromise his ability to push through all the other things he wants to accomplish will it be more difficult for him to get his way on other issues like the upcoming debt crisis and immigration reform will obama himself be seen as weak and dithering on important issues obama s move to drag congress kicking and screaming into the fray may be either a good idea or the worst idea ever now congress will be on record as either opposing or approving an air strike so they will share either the credit or the blame but bringing this incredibly dysfunctional body into center stage may be really dumb since congress seems incapable of doing anything constructive or useful we will probably get the first vote on the syria matter in a couple of days when the senate votes to invoke closure on the topic and deny any use of the filibuster the republicans weapon of choice when they can t get their way by you know actually coming up with good alternative solutions to a problem to gum up the works the house of representatives looks like to won t vote for a couple of weeks on the matter conceivably giving the assad regime time to move its chemical stockpiles around and conceal them or harden them by making it tougher to find and destroy them this will also involve moving them into civilian neighborhoods so if the chemical weapons do manage to get blown up the gas will be released and cause horrific collateral damage and deaths of innocent people this is a quagmire of the first order and one which definitely changes daily and often seems to evolve by the hour it would be completely fascinating to watch if it wasn t for the fact that so much is riding on what will happen when the u s and the world finally decide to take some sort of action against a heartless dictator who sees no wrong in subjecting his fellow citizens to die in a gas attack posted by bunnyman at 8 48 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 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