I mean, honestly -- "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction," "There's no such thing as global warming," "The fundamentals of our economy are strong." How many times do we on the left have to be proved correct and those on the other side have to be wrong for people to finally wake up? And don't they ever get tired of being wrong? I was pondering this question this morning when it suddenly dawned on me, they don't care if they're wrong. In fact, you could easily make the case that the leaders in this administration knew full well they were wrong all along, but no matter, what they were selling -- empirically true or not -- served their real interests.
Plenty of very knowledgeable people, including the UN inspectors who were tasked with the assignment, tried to tell them there were no WMDs in Iraq, and Bush himself admitted Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, but Halliburton et. al, weren't going to be able to ransack our treasury without a war, were they?
Al Gore, along with most of the scientists on the planet, tried to warn them about global warming, but if that reality was gonna put a dent in corporate profits the facts simply had to be covered up and denied as long as humanly possible.
And common sense itself would dictate you couldn't run up this kind of massive debt endlessly. That you couldn't simply allow the very wealthiest among us to rake in record-breaking profits year after year and not pay taxes on them. Or allow banks to lend money to those with no discernable means of ever being able to pay it back. But how were their pals on Wall St. gonna get obscenely wealthy if the government actually did its job and stepped in with pesky regulation?
So, all of these "unforeseeable" things were, in fact, foreseen by many, and I can't believe that everyone on the "other side of the aisle" is either genuinely that blind or that stupid. But from what I've seen of human nature, I can believe that far, far too many of them were that corrupt and that greedy. Meantime, their on-the-take media minions work day and night to try to distract us with endless petty ridicule, with constant fear-mongering, and an absurd focus on really important issues like whether or not two guys or two women who love each other should be allowed to get married, while our "leaders" shamelessly wrap themselves in the flag and pick the nation's collective pockets clean.
But -- you say, eventually the bill comes due. Eventually people find out the truth and reality bites in a big way. The war grinds brutally, pointlessly and insanely expensively on; the waters rise and drown New Orleans, gas hits four dollars a gallon, we become more dependent than ever on foreign oil, the average person struggles mightily to maintain even a minimum of health care, and the entire financial system of the country comes to the brink of complete meltdown and collapse. That's got to come back to haunt them, right? I mean, anyone who screwed up that royally in that many ways is gonna have hell to pay, right? Apparently, not so fast. That's when those in the shadows disappear with their ill-gotten gains, the rest of us little people are expected to chip in and pay the bill and somehow try to clean up the mess or face even worse calamities, and those with the nerve to still stand brazenly in front of the cameras pull out the, "There'll be plenty of time for fixing blame down the road," or, "It doesn't matter how we got into Iraq, what matters is how we're going to get out," maxims. Or another of my favorites, "We're focused on the future, not the past." And they are never, ever held accountable (thanks, Pelosi), either for their honest mistakes or their far more numerous calculated, despicable, often downright treasonous crimes.
It's really all a very brilliant scam when you stop to think about it. They're not dumb at all, they're actually wickedly smart and diabolically shrewd. It's just too bad they have no respect or concern whatsoever for their fellow man or the good of the country they claim to so patriotically love. Rat-fucking bastards.
So, back to my original question, don't they ever get tired of being wrong? Clearly, the answer to that is a big, fat, obscenely profitable "no." The real question now is, aren't the American people tired of their being wrong?