The real war
This story speaks – screams – for itself. It’s part of that grand rollback mentioned earlier. The Hard Right and its present avatars in the Bush Faction really do want to repeal and destroy all of the advances in civil rights and civic rights and human rights won – at such tremendous sacrifice – over the past century. It’s not just about dismantling the Great Society or undoing the New Deal; it’s about going all the way back to the post-Civil War era, when the powerful few could prey without let or hindrance upon the wretched many, and government was a brutal tool in the robber baron’s arsenal. These guys don’t just have Franklin Roosevelt in their sights; they’re going after Teddy Roosevelt too, with all the trust-busting and major social reforms of his era (many of which he gets unearned credit for, but that’s another story). – And of course, a goodly number of these Hard-Righters don’t want to stop at the post-Civil War era; they’d like to restore the “honor” and “morality” of the antebellum South as well.
Continue with Chris Floyd’s Home Front: Dispatches from the War on America
