i am left with this one question: who are we?
cattle? feudal serfs? indentured servants? are we trapped? who’s in charge, anyway?
i only realize now that the real turn in my political perception happened after the Nov 2005 elections, when Democrats regained a slim majority in Congress. when i expected everything to happen. accountability. push-back at FISA, the Military Commissions Act, the Patriot Act, more oversight of the captains of industry and financial markets. i really thought, listening to the likes of Henry Waxman that the sane people, once again, had some meaningful influence over politics and policies.
what slowly began to dawn on me was that the people i thought would work to restore our country had sabotaging us all along.
so when i read Cheney on Wiretapping: “Congress said we could”