Pandagon on the state of the economy
after two years of Bush:
Two-plus years of being promised nothing but tax cuts is doing nothing to restore faith or activity
in the economy. A year and a half of a war on terror with much bluster but no significant victory
since late 2001 isn’t doing anything. An impending war with Iraq that can only be justified by building
up a piddling two-bit dictatorship into a greater threat than the mass murderers we’ve lost track of
isn’t doing anything. Constant promises of increasing supply in an overproducing economy isn’t doing
anything.And the best part? We get to run deficits for the foreseeable future to finance all this uselessness,
and the serially poor handling of domestic affairs will be glossed over by the media and ineffectually
attacked by the only other alternative we have.
Not true.
There are alternatives to the Democrats, (Greens, socialist parties like the SWP, others) and there’s
also the possibility of rebuilding the Democratic Party into a true liberal party again. Thing is, all these
options take time and time is not something we have enough off at the moment. Still, better to die fighting
then to despair. Even if we’re not able now to stop the Republicans from fucking up the US, it is
worthwhile to get involved. If every leftwing, (liberal, socialist or otherwise blogger is as active in (local)
politics as we are blogging, we can move mountains. But it doesn’t happen if we just sit here complaining on
our blogs and think that’s enough. So fax your senators, send that rice to Bush and get involved!