Bush undermines our democracy: "Gore charged that the Bush administration 'had turned the fundamental presumption of our democracy on its head' by seeking to withhold information about its own activities, even while acquiring ever more information about the activities of private citizens.
... "I believe that the Patriot Act has turned out to be, on balance, a terrible mistake, and that it became a kind of Tonkin Gulf Resolution conferring Congress' blessing for this president's assault on civil liberties," Gore charged."

This is a key point about this administration--it demands less rights for individuals, more for government. And at the same time it seeks to emascualte government controls on corporations. So what happens to government by the people, for the people? It gets stiffed. Willfully so. And why? So this cabal in power can do whatever their constituency of rich CEO's wishes. It's as banal as that. But brilliantly executed, I'll give them that. But it's only working because the media and other power brokers represent the corporations, not the people.
- posted by geoff @ #