Commenter Bubba in my previous post describes how what is happening to our country makes his heart ache. Heartache is a good word to describe how I feel, too. It amazes me how easy a time the forces of greed and powerlust are having, how weak the resistance. About a 1/3 of the electorate is aware and dismayed about what is happening, but it doesn't seem to matter. There were always Americans who didn't get what the American experiment in equality and liberty was about. They were a nuisance and the source of a lot of unnecessary grief. Now their ideas are being embraced by so-called moderates.
There's an ineluctable character about what's happening to America, as if there's some siren song that leaders of great powers hear as soon as they take office. It drowns out any memory of the song about its founding ideals and fundamental values. Regarding American civil liberties, we see In a guy like Eric Holder, and Obama himself, we are how it's possible for decent people to dance unwittingly to the song of expediency croaked by an ugly, flat-toned beast singing "Come to Me; I'm the Banality of Evil"--so many little choices made in the name of expediency. It's tragic in a pathetic, ho-hum sort of way.