The Plague of Conservatism must be Eradicated

As I've stated before, Conservatism is a complete and total failure, but we have to realize that it's more than just bumbling and incompetent... it's dangerous.

Today's revelations that the Federal Government has been spying on Journalists (noted here and here) in a effort to capture leakers and whistle-blowers (most of whom are in fact revealing various illegal and frankly immoral activities of the Bush Administration) should not come as a surprise to most who've been paying attention as scandal after scandal comes tumbling down both ends of Pennsylvania Ave.

But is this enough to truly make people realize the depth of Conservative Malfeasance, or do we still need something even worse to happen before we finally wake up as a nation and reject this poisonous pathological affliction?

We have a goverment that started a War on false pretenses and to this very day continues to lie about it. The President still says that "Saddam refused to disclose and disarm" when he'd already done exactly that, meanwhile we have pathetically desperate Freepers claiming that their really were "Mobile Laboratories". Yeah, really.

WE. LET. AN. AMERICAN. CITY. DROWN.

And yet in mixed company you will still meet people who make excuses for this President's failure to act, and instead attempt to blame Louisiana for being hit by a Hurricane.

It's become high-time we realized that George W. Bush is not the problem - he's just a symptom of the disease. He's not the Decider, he's The Enabler. He's the guy that let Alberto Gonzales justify, and Don Rumsfeld get away with War Crimes. He's the guy that allowed Porter Goss to conduct a witchhunt through the halls of the CIA. He's the guy that let's Dick Cheney and his staff out a Covert CIA operative just to cover up their lies about Iraq's Nuclear ambitions. He's the guy that let Michael Chertoff eviscerate FEMA, not to mention the slow atrophy that's choked off the effectiveness of the FDA, EPA, SEC and every other Federal regulatory agency. He's the guy that allows his minions to try and pervert the very meaning of science in our classrooms, while teaching our children that "condoms are bad", but anal and oral sex are "ok" since it won't lead to an abortion (Never mind STD's, those are for dirty people only).

He's the Enabler who permits these conservative crazies to implement their strategy to remake America into their warped Ozzy and Harriet/Father Knows Best fantasies by unilaterially rejecting 750 Congressional passed Bills even as he signs them into Law. Piece by peice, recreating a world that never really existed. A world where domestic violence was not just common, it was expected if a Woman didn't know her "proper place". Where segregation backed by violent retribution and lynchings were the rule, not the exception. Where daring to be Gay was practically a death sentence. Where an unclean woman who died as the result of an abortion, was getting what she deserved for being a slut. A world where White People need to start having more babies, so they won't be outnumbered by the teaming brown masses assaulting our borders.

During the last six years a tide of opinion has slowly grown that George Bush needs to go. He's polling numbers have sunk to a sub-artic 29%. Senator Russ Feingold has callef ro this Censure. Congressman John Conyers has proposed investigations which may lead to impeachment proceedings. But that doesn't go nearly far enough.

Even without George Bush there still literally millions of staunch Conservatives who are more than willing to throw him under the Bus by proclaiming that his many failures where the result of his squishy "Liberalism" then continue their efforts to implement the True Conservatism of their radical and dangerously militarist, neo-facist, theocratic agenda.

Those sentiments should be truly chilling to anyone who genuinely beleives in the Bill of Rights.

It's not just about George Bush. We also have Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, "Duke" Cunningham, "Scooter" Libby, "Dusty" Foggo, James Gannon/Guckert and the conservative networking that has nurtured these people through the system for years.

No matter how satisyfing it may be to see each of these dominoes fall, no matter how much fun it might be to finally see Karl Rove frog marched out of the Whitehouse following his impendnig indictment, focusing on these people misses the point. What we have to battle is the Red-State of Mind.

Conservatism itself, as a viable ideology has to been stamped out. Pulled out by the roots, as both Marxism and Nazism were, totally discredited and destroyed. It's not something we can force, it has to happen on it's own. Just like the eventual destruction of Germany at the end of World War II, or the collapse of the Soviet Russian - it will only happen after a great catastrophe that can be likely directly to the policies and practices of that ideology.

Was that catastrophe 9/11? Was it Katrina? Will it be the impending collapse of the American dollar as our budget and trade deficits continues to explode out of control, or some unforeseen tragedy?

Some former Neo-cons such as Francis Fukuyama have already seen enough and turned a new leaf, but will most of Bush's current throng of followers catch a hint based on what has already occured?

I don't know.

As troubling as these many scandals from Fornigate to Traitorgate have been, they aren't enough to turn the tide. They aren't enough to make people let go of their pathological dependancy on party and ideological affiliation. It's not enough to break the fever, and end the plague. Not yet.

We can't argue and debate our way out of this. Logic, Common Sense, Facts, History, Evidence -- all of these have proven fruitless in arguing with the Conservative Faithful when it comes to the many errors of their ways. They are like addicts, who are unwilling to admit their problem and always quick to rationalize their continued actions.

Like an addict, they - and consequently we as a nation since they continue to control all branches of government - are going to need to completely bottom out before we begin to see the light.

"The first step to recover is reality that you (we) have a problem"

I pray that we reach that bottom soon, but also that we survive it as a nation mostly unscathed -- but I fear that hope may be in vain.

If Iraq isn't enough to turn us around - if Katrina isn't enough - that last final direction changing hit is going to hurt, badly.

God Save America, for it is most certainly in need of it.

[Update from Dkos Comments: I am not suggesting a great "Purge" ala McCarthyism - no, I'm talking about attacking the "isms" which plague us, not the "ists". It's the ideology itself that is the problem and will - must - be completely discredited in order to save this nation from itself]

Vyan