We Will Win!

This morning on the way home from rehab I heard one of the authors of One Party Country: The Republican Plan for Dominance in the 21st Century by Peter Wallsten and Tom Hamburger being interviewed on NPR. From the publisher: "... the Bush administration's primary governing focus is cementing GOP dominance for decades to come and eviscerating the Democrats' New Deal coalition. ... Guiding this quest is Karl Rove, a man who exercises unprecedented power as he marshals all branches of government in service of the ultimate goal. This book shows Rove manipulating the most obscure federal activities and reveals how his actions shape local races and help the GOP lure the Democrats' most loyal supporters: Jews, African Americans, and Latinos. The authors detail how Republicans have turned corporate America into a wing of the party, and how their audacious, carefully crafted plan may yet unravel in a swirl of scandal in the nation's capital."

I guess I was feeling vulnerable at the moment for one reason or another and I just really felt depressed for a while. Indefinite dominance by the Republican Party means we will never have universal health care, decent wages for workers, equitable distribution of the tax burden, honest people running the government instead of the likes of Rove, Mehlman, Cheney, Gonzales, DeLay, James Dobson, and Abramoff.

Well, hell, as I read in this review just a few minutes ago, their "plan may yet unravel in a swirl of scandal." Sometimes I half-heartedly believe that a loving, merciful God will at last liberate us from these cynical, merciless thugs who have hijacked what was once an honorable government and hoodwinked so many good people and taken all the spoils.

Many of us want to believe in an apocalypse in which a just God will vanquish our oppressors. I think that what will eventually happen is the Rovers and Mehlmanians et al will "fall of their own weight," that they carry the seeds of their own destruction within them, that their greed and graft and conceit will bring them down with a great crash.

I don't know what God has to do with that, actually, but I pray that He will bring them down. I know that we suffered through the Third Reich and that hideous cabal eventually destroyed itself. (I add the footnote that our mongrel draftee dogfaces whipped the Kraut's asses fair and square, bitching all the while, no matter how committed and smart and tough and purebred the Krauts thought they were.) I still want to believe that God had a plan for the good forces in the world to prevail, and that God still does.

Amen.