How McCain Lost, but the Sky Still Falls

"How McCain Lost in Pennsylvania" is the title of the best analysis yet of the McCain campaign and the Democratic primary stalemate. "Not so fast," is good advice to all in the corporate media who can't wait to beat up on a democratic process moving to a natural completion. Just as Antonin Scalia, a Reagan legacy and believer that the constitution is dead, said last week when responding to a challenge to the Florida 2000 election, "Just get over it!"; this is the media, impatient to bully the public with its own agenda of quick sound bites and simple answers. Remember, the media profit hugely from the long election processes yet they act like they cover elections as a free public service.

The Fall

“We were already in our twilight phase when Ronald Reagan, with all the insight of an ostrich, declared it to be ‘morning in America’; twenty-odd years later, under the ‘boy emperor’ George W. Bush (as Chalmers Johnson refers to him), we have entered the Dark Ages in earnest, pursuing a short-sighted path that can only accelerate our decline. For what we are now seeing are the obvious characteristics of the West after the fall of Rome: the triumph of religion over reason; the atrophy of education and critical thinking; the integration of religion, the state, and the apparatus of torture—a troika that was for Voltaire the central horror of the pre-Enlightenment world; as well as, today, the political and economic marginalization of our culture.... The British historian Charles Freeman published an extended discussion of the transition that took place during the late Roman empire, the title of which could serve as a capsule summary of our current rulers: ”The Closing of the Western Mind.”
”Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire” by Morris Berman, a professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

The above excepted from Gore Vidal's, "President Jonah, Meet Oliver Cromwell!"

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