So let's admit the obvious.
We, the people, the outsiders, have no say in the government that claims
to be the most free and democratic in the world. That government, supposedly
our government, represents the interests of the insiders. The US Constitution,
the bedrock of our rights and freedoms, has been tossed into the waste bin.
Bush views it as a quaint holdover from a time long passed, those heady days
before the government launched the "War on Terror" - a war directed at its
own citizens.
So
the outsiders, you and me, find ourselves looking on in horror and shock
as the values that were instilled into us are ever more brazenly ignored,
scoffed at, and even rewritten in some form of Orwellian double-speak where
the meanings have changed while the forms continue on.