{"id":14,"date":"2004-09-28T04:11:09","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T04:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=14"},"modified":"2004-09-28T04:11:09","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T04:11:09","slug":"dark-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/dark-musings\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Caveat: It’s 4 a.m. and cold medication have given me a restess night.<\/p>\n

But, I need to ask: Is this country sliding toward fascism? <\/p>\n

Here we are, in a war begun recklessly at best, and conducted with gross incompetence.<\/p>\n

Here we are with roughy 50% of the voting public allowing itself to be lied to about the war in Iraq, about the fiscal management of the nation, about tax policy, about the environment.<\/p>\n

Here we are with the vice-president manifestly corrupt(he lies that he has severed connections with Haliburton, but is being paid large sums by Haliburton; Halliburton, under his watch, defied the embargo of Iraq), a defense department run by arrogant fools, the legislative leadership running on politics of distortion and deceit.<\/p>\n

Here we are, with a major political party whose current hallmarks are destruction and deceit.<\/p>\n

Here we are with an electorate swayed by the politics of fear.<\/p>\n

Here we are with a religio-ethnic scapegoat. <\/p>\n

Here we are, with government being made subservient to radical ideology and corporatism.<\/p>\n

I’m fundamentally an optimist, but things don’t look so good at the moment.<\/p>\n

I’m fundamentally a democratic (small D), but the voting public has been irresponsible. I don’t see an alternative mind you, but it is deeply disappointing to watch the voting public swallow lie after lie.<\/p>\n

This is serious, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Caveat: It’s 4 a.m. and cold medication have given me a restess night. But, I need to ask: Is this country sliding toward fascism? Here we are, in a war begun recklessly at best, and conducted with gross incompetence. Here we are with roughy 50% of the voting public allowing itself to be lied to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","cat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walz-chojnacki.us\/Pensees\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}