Revolution newspaper, 2/19
If opposition remains confined to top Democratic politicians or other
ruling class figures, then it will go nowhere. Already there are the
familiar signs of submission and compromise. “I think there are two
things going on,” Republican Senator Lindsay Graham of South Carolina
was quoted as saying in the February 11 New York Times. “There’s an
abandonment of you-broke-the-law rhetoric by the Democrats and a more
questioning attitude about what the law should be by the Republicans.
And that merges for a very healthy debate.” Think about the terms of
what Graham is calling a “healthy” debate(it is a “debate” where it
becomes accepted norms that the president can break any law with
impunity, and where the terms of accepted discourse evolve to a
discussion of how best to secretly spy on millions of people in service
of an agenda of wars of aggression, lies, and torture. [more]