It's the same horrible game all over again.
After 9/11, what did we get from the neocons and corporatocracy? A safer nation?
Hell, no. We got corporate executives' dreams of oil profits that went up, literally, in smoke, leaving behind, a shattered nation, politically destabilized region, hundreds of thousands of refugees, tens of thousands of dead. We got a giant bureaucracy designed less to protect and more to perpetuate a state of fear in America. We got a giant step back in civil rights and human decency. And we got an economy that was on the brink, partly because while we squandered our human and material resources, our attention was diverted from the grand scale theft going on under our collective noses here at home.
Now they're doing it again.
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