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Alexis de Tocqueville, in his seminal work, Exploring Democracy in America, made the observation that one of the overriding characteristics of the American people is that they do not like criticism from abroad. Dickens made a similar observation when he was being feted at the grandest of New York’s event (all in his honor) The Boz Ball.
Bush & Cheney have built their whole administration on the notion of giving the finger to all those who would criticize them – Germany, France, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Russia, others….. Worse, they have done the same to voting Americans, and they have further insulted the People by spying on them in the 10-million wiretaps kind of way. Rather than give you the dismissive finger, your Administration has instead given you the electronic equivalent of a proctologic examination.
Now, I am going to criticism the Bush Administration not for being low-brow, which they certainly are (isn’t that right Scooter & Brownie), but rather because they have managed to not only tarnish the reputation of the United States abroad, they have also tarnished the whole concept of Democracy. Yes, it may be a fine and noble idea, but not if it means death, terror and disease. They have now made it achingly clear that they simply don’t care about the abstraction of democracy, but rather about the power and the control of resources that they can take from the export of democracy. If they truly had as their collective goal the elimination of tyranny and the spread of democracy, they would have started a different war elsewhere, and they would have started first by setting up the kinds of community organizations that must necessarily exist before democracy can take root (See De Tocqueville Chapter V Of The Use Which The Americans Make
Of Public Associations In Civil Life
Americans are beginning to realize the swindle of the Bush-Cheney years – but is it too late? Is there redemption?
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bush, cheney, de tocqueville, domestic spying, wiretapping
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Posted on 5/11/2006
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