The Bush Junta

I’m usually loathe to indulge in all that blog-linking-to-blog stuff that goes on, because it feels to much like mutual masturbation, only not as much fun, but this little snippet is supreme rollicking conspiracy stuff:

We’re just starting to see American progressives coming to grips with the fact that the ‘election’ of George Bush wasn’t just politics as usual, an unfortunate turn to the right but nothing different than the elections of, say, Nixon or Reagan. This Bush junta (I keep using this word to signify a government by generals and big business as English really doesn’t have a word for it, most English-speaking countries not having experienced it) represents a complete paradigm shift in American governance. It is not just a particularly right-wing government, it is really a new type of government entirely. To call it ‘fascist’ or even ‘neo-fascist’ really doesn’t help us to understand it, although it certainly has similarities to past fascist governments … Bush’s junta has been planned for years (and if saying that it has been expressly planned for years makes me a ‘conspiracy theorist’, I’d prefer to be so labelled than to be thought to be blindly stupid). It involves the complete control of all media outlets, the complete corruption of both political parties, the complete emasculation of progressive politics by the subtle corruption of identity politics until all progressive politics can sneeringly be labelled by the right as ‘liberalism’, the creation of complete forms of political philosophy generally called ‘neo-conservatism’ or even ‘conservatism’ (which it definitely is not) to provide the facade of legitimacy to a philosophy which is basically the celebration of psychotic worship of greed and selfishness, the promotion of political power in the hands of people who have insane views on religion (in what other country would the phrase ‘born again’, which appears to be an attempt to avoid guilt by mocking God and lying to yourself, be a term of praise?), and the complete control of the judiciary by an extremely aggressive and single-minded use of the ability to appoint and/or approve.