Pointing To The Wolf

We have procedures in this country for dealing with unsatisfactory political leaders, for removing the incompetent from office. It's called impeachment. Last November, the American public brought the opposition party into power in Congress, and immediately the leaders of the opposition party said impeachment is off the table. Well, if impeachment is off the table, then it may well be that Constitutional democracy is off the table, too. -- Chalmers Johnson, author of Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic

My God! How much does it take to wake Americans up – and as I’ve said before, just how stupid is the majority? And what has happened to the Democratic Party? Why has the leadership of the party caved and rolled over to Bush-Cheney and the enemy within - the run-amok, criminally insane, imperialistic corporate aristocracy that has taken over the Republican Party? Could it be these Democrats are also card carrying members of the same run-amok aristocracy?

Chalmers Johnson has written two previous books that warned of the dangers our country now faces by continuing to embrace imperialistic ideals and dreams of world empire. His latest book, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, is the most frightening and alarming. Alternet has posted an interview with Johnson which I urge everyone who considers themselves an American to read.

Chalmers points out that we have been warned over and over of the dangers to our nation but as a people we have not only not been vigilant enough, we have ignored those warnings and have allowed our nation to reach a state where we are teetering on the edge of collapse. He suggests we did not win the cold war as we think we did. He claims that we and Russia both lost only Russia fell first and that we are falling now, ending up like Russia did, deeply in debt, on the brink of bankruptcy, over extended militarily and facing defeat in attempts to colonize sovereign nations.

Chalmers is one of a growing number of progressive voices that have not just suddenly popped awake and become aware of some danger that appeared overnight. This is no knee-jerk reaction to a recent turn of events. There are many American patriots who have been trying to get the attention of the masses for years and even decades. The progressives who have severely criticized the Bush regime and elected representatives of both the Democratic and Republican parties are not irrational alarmists, not delusional bleeding heart liberals warning of imaginary dangers. They are clear-headed, intelligent, and prescient visionaries who are solidly in touch with reality. They have carefully studied history and see clearly what is about to happen if we don’t come together as a nation and demand a change of leadership and direction.

Progressives aren’t just crying wolf. They are pointing to a real wolf that is about to pounce and are crying out for their fellow countrymen to turn and defend our country and our way of life before it’s too late.