How Will We Answer?

I’m guessing that his readers either love or hate what Joe Klein writes. I’m of the former ilk, and it stands to reason that the latter probably don’t spend much time reading Klein’s column. Case in point is his current essay, Why Bush Is (Still) Winning the War at Home. How do we explain that in spite of the criminal immorality of the Bush Administration he remains in office? Nixon and Clinton’s transgressions combined pale by comparison to Bush et al’s invasion and occupation of a sovereign nation, but “architect” Rove seems to know how to manipulate the masses into passive acquiescence. Not even $3-a-gallon gas seems to be getting anyone worked up. Klein seems to answer the question by pointing out the confusion and disunity that currently defines the Democrats, but we really need to wake up to the fact that those politicians are but representatives of their constituencies. I’ve asked it before, and I am compelled to ask it again, what the hell is wrong with us? The pressing question after World War II was how an incredibly intelligent, creative culture such as Germany succumbed to Nazi propaganda and turned a blind eye to the atrocity of the holocaust. It makes me sad to realize that fifty years from now, the world will be asking the same thing about us.