Dry Rot in the Roots of Democracy

For well over the last thirty years the shapers of the Republican Party have fervently pusued an authoritarian direction--an obsession that threatens the Founding Fathers' intent that this nation should be conducted as a true democratic form of government.

Since the world has stumbled into the twenty-first century, the Republican Party's aim has revealed itself to be alarmingly totalitarian in purpose. With the gleeful input of neoconservatives and Christian extremiststs assuring the people that God watches over the United States, we have watched the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government being systematically deconstructed.

The mantra recited throughout the thirty-year plus push to incite their decidedly undemocratic ambition has been "too much government." The money worshippers were deeply incensed that the government tried to keep a level playing field for everyone, and they railed against laws that prevented monopoly practices that would use the necessities of life as a means to bilk and drain the capital of the middle and lower classes.

Through the decades the Republican ambition managed to remove price caps, one by on on this or that, as they stealthily worked their way up to dismantle bigger safeguards that were once put in place to protect the majority. The offer that was presented and championed by G. W. Bush was "let the businesses (corporations) police themselves." That would, of course, reduce government--and the big plus would be that it would drive the nation into deeper debt and bankruptcy.

Make the workers and craftsment and the true providers of our interactive society poorer, and belittle the notion of a government "...of the people,by the people, and for the people" as "quaint" and infer it is the cause of financial meltdown for all the working (productive) classes. Such are the seeds of totalitarianism planted and fertilized. In such a take-over operation the people can be tricked into a belief that "preemptive" war on a non-sovereign (but oil-rich) country is God-approved, and our nation's people can be herded into fear of personal loss and disaster. Unfortunately, by using these tactics they set themselves up to rule over the decline of the nation.

All dictatorships and theocracies have followed a similar route.