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What's the circulation of Vanity Fair, anyway?
And of course this is not a new argument. Iraq is exactly where Bush wants it, New Orleans is exactly where Bushes cronies want it, and so is the torture ordered by Bush, Cheney and/or Rumsfeld, and so is Iran, and - though I know it's anathema to a lot people - so was 9/11. Precisely the set of circumstances that allows his fascist masters to do as they please.
Amongst it all, the Dem leaders' silence is nothing short of incriminating. If we know, if Vanity Fairs finally prints it, they know, too. I don't believe for a moment they were "misled" about WMD in Iraq, because if you watched CNN at that time, yes, even only CNN, you'd have caught Scott Ritter tell the truth, before he was banished from major airwaves, and you'd have caught El Baradei, too.
And if that was happening too fast for anyone, there's now no excuse for not having read, say, Craig Unger's "House of Bush, House of Saud". (BTW, don't assume you know the main story of the book if you've only seen Moore's movie. The movies is based on the book, but it uses maybe 5% of the content).
So the silence is incriminating and chilling.
And then, the current spewage of hate between "sexist" Obama supporters and "racist" Hillary supporters, and even worse names for those who support anyone else (Freepers! Repugs!) - I don't suppose this is just a twist of electoral fate, either. The act that has been playing out on DU these days, I belive it is scripted. Like the article says - it's not a bug, it's a feature.
Is there really no way to get the message across? Maybe contact the people who work directly for the candidates, who probably genuinely believe they're working towards the greater good, maybe they don't have the time to read Vanity Fair?
One thing I have learned from history of totalitarian states is that when people suffer or have grievances and think the leaders would help them if only they knew what was being done ot them; when people believe the leaders mean well and only their henchmen or their police or their bureaucrats usurp vindictive power - that is never true. The leaders know, because they would not stay leaders long if they did not. That's what they do. It takes the masses of people ages to realize that, and most people may never get that particular point. Stalin is to this day extolled by lots of people in Russia, let alone his native Georgia, and don't try to tell them how many innocent people he got killed, how many lives he ruined. They are convinced, at the very least, that he meant well. Fish, meet hook.
Everyone who does any work for any of the candidates right now would do well to stop, take a step back, take a walk, take a deep breath, and ask themselves if there's maybe anything they don't quite understand about their favorite leader. Just a thought.
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