Article: An Illusion of Normality

But they are up against the most formidable and unyielding of adversaries: the truth - an adversary that they have abused and repressed throughout their reign of error. And as they must eventually discover, reality bites. "Truth crushed on earth," wrote William Cullen Bryant, "will rise again," and it will rise, no matter how many millions are poured into the budgets of "think tanks" or into the pockets of whore-"scientists." "Truth will rise again," if not here, then abroad, and if not now, then eventually.

If we are to restore our democracy, truth must rise again soon and here.

But how?

Foremost among the objectives of the progressive resistance must be to disabuse the public at large of its "illusion of normality." We must attack the widespread but understandable unwillingness of that public to face up to the enormity of the crimes that have been perpetrated upon the body politic.

Fortunately, events are at last coming to the aid of the resistance. A "perfect storm" is descending upon the White House and Congress: the innocent lives sacrificed to the Iraq disaster, the Katrina catastrophe and the evident inability and unwillingness of the Bush Administration to attend to the business of protecting the public, the aforementioned criminal indictments - present and forthcoming. Looming ahead is a collapse of the economy as the housing bubble bursts, consumer spending crashes because the American consumer "maxes out" his credit and faces unemployment, and our international creditors decide they've had enough, and decide to invest in other currencies.

Public opinion polls (if we can still trust them) are reporting plummeting approval ratings for the President and the GOP, along with a loss of confidence in the direction that the country is taking, and a loss of credibility of the mainstream media. "The fear factor" is losing its potency. It's beginning to dawn on more and more of our fellows citizens that they have been suckered and lied to, and they don't like it.

Trouble is, they don't at the moment have any place to turn. The "opposition party," the Democrats, don't fare much better in the opinion polls than the Republicans, and for good reason. They are dumb-struck, incoherent, and impotent.

The time is right for forceful, inspired and articulated leaders of the opposition to emerge. Where are they? Who are they? Who dares step forward, speak out, and take the lead? What individuals, what organizations, what factions will put aside their differences and unite in common cause?

On these questions, the issue of the restoration of our liberties, our welfare, our republic, will turn.

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