A state of ignorance ...

From The Sideshow:

If, as Grist reports, Al Gore is telling a New York Times columnist that he advocates civil disobedience, then I don't think he's going to run for president: "I can't understand why there aren't rings of young people blocking bulldozers," Mr. Gore said, "and preventing them from constructing coal-fired power plants."

If our Representatives in the House and Senate are so amazingly ignorant of the Constitution that they swear to uphold, what does one expect from the rest of the citizenry? Our education system has been starved and often under attack for decades. We have been taught to shop and strive to turn our person and personality into some kind of corporate created image of what we 'should' be. Speaking up in public embarrasses the whole room and if the police are about can actually be very dangerous to one's own person. We have been trained to refrain from 'talking back.' AND that any utterance IS back-talk. We know that the authorities can, with impunity, lie to us. But not only do the authorities lie to the public (for our own good, of course) they lie everywhere including in court under oath.

Whether we have completely crossed over from a representative democracy into a corporate fascist country I don't know. But psychologically it appears we have. There is little outrage against these criminals who are running our country. There may be a shift in support for Bush. But there's little outrage for the criminal destruction of a country that did not attack us. To our TV-reality country it was just another 'good show.'

I don't know what will wake up this country or if it is even possible to arouse it from it's corporate induced dream state.