Larry Beinhart: 2007 - Year of Madness

Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 01/03/2007 - 9:11am. Guest Contribution

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Larry Beinhart, author of Wag the Dog, The Librarian, and Fog Facts

PART ONE: THE GREAT AWAKENING

The vote in 2006 made it clear that people's eyes are actually open.

Since the Busheviks began to run with the hysteria of 9/11, clear vision and voices of reasons were sent to wander in the wilderness, mocked like bearded hermits riding asses.

But suddenly, "War on Terror" didn't make people jump up and burn their constitutions. CNN ran a series on what was broken in America -- including the media. Even though the government, the Wall Street analysts, and, astonishingly, most professional economists said the economy was terrific, ordinary people were able to tell that something was wrong. Books attacking the idiocies and excesses of religion flowered on the best seller lists like crocuses in the spring. Then we voted. The rubber stamp, neo-con, neo-Christ, corporate owned congress and senate, lost their Republican majorities.