Subversion of the democratic process ...

The democratic process (which we will have to define more fully) keeps the inherent (or "natural") dialectic of the Capitalist environment—the creative energy devoted to the struggle for the additonal wealth created by labor—in dynamic equilibrium thereby producing the good life for all the participants.

The fear that the democratic process (the masses, as it were) will be subverted and produce a communist or fascist anti-semitic economic/political environment is now being used—ironically—to justify the takover of the democratic process in the United States by the Neocons.

This takeover is destroying the democratic process in the United States. Once agin we are destroying the village to save it. With its destruction will come the loss of the means of maintaining the dynamic equilibrium of the Capitalist environment. This will in turn arouse the reactionary forces of either the right or the left as they see what they consider their just and equitable portion of the additional wealth produced by labor diminishing.

The fear of losing out and the reaction to it will produce the very violent struggle that the Neocons think they are trying to avoid ... except that in the Religious Right component of their world view there is the prophesied climactic struggle of good versus evil in the end times, labeled "The Battle of Armageddon". Because God is on our side, we will win.

Surreptiously, the Neocons say that because they have the power to do so, they will divide the wealth in a manner that will increase their (the Neocons') power. They are the elite because they have the power to be the elite, and having power justifies their actions, a view directly descendent from the view that all authority is ordained by God.

The current existential conflict and angst in the "body politic" comes from the fact that most of us have moved beyond that concept of the source of power, embodied in the divine right of kings, but too many of us still have a good life that we don't want to jeopardize by opposing the growing power of the Neocons. We build our 4,000 square foot single family residences and screw in energy saving light bulbs.

The history of Western Civilization—including that of our nation—is that of growing understanding by individual citizens that wealth is not dispensed by God—either directly or through His agent(s)—and the natural dialectic of who owns the fruits of our labor comes into play. It is easily understood as a natural dialectic because we are hunter-gatherers who bring back to our tribe and family the game and produce resulting from our efforts. When someone tries to take it away from us in the primal land—someone we do not recognize as belonging to our group—we fight them for it. But naturally offer it up for the good of the group to which we belong.

Sooner or later, if the usurping of the democratic process by the Neocons is allowed to continue, it will create the reaction that will turn into a violent struggle ending in the destruction of the world as we know it or the economic and political slavery of the people by the reactionary forces of whoever wins the struggle—the far right or the far left. Then once again we will have to fight our way back to our birthright of inalienable rights ... among which "are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

It doesn't have to be like this. But if we are afraid to defend freedom from the encroachments of the Neocons ... selling our birthright for porridge ... we will give up the promised land. Thus it has always been. Liberty mounts the barricades or perishes ignominiously in retreat.