The Stakes of the Election

On my way to campus this morning, I saw a late model Volkwagon idling, its driver presumably inside, waiting for the car to warm up.

On the back of the car was a sticker that said 01.20.09, reminding us when this dreadful historical nightmare of BushCo corporatism, and its cryptofascist neocons, might be over. Might...Be...Over...

See, the stakes of this election are far greater than just the end of Bush: We have to insure that it really is the end of Bushism.

We, as a nation, need to be sure that whoever we elect to undue the kind of autocracy that has tipped the balance of powers firmly in the direction of a kind of "elected" Imperator. Right now, none the presumptive front runners for both parties pass the smell test.

It is not a matter of one party or the other. It is a matter of the survival of this republic. Think it through, and remember: There is no good reason for unchecked executive power, for suspension of habeas corpus, for shadow governments, for torture, for wiretapping. I don't care who's doing it.