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Bill Moyer's speech last September for the Texas Observer is simply superb.
America is not yet a theocracy but Texas almost is and the Republican Party already is... .
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The phenomenon of our time is how the religious, political, and corporate right, under the cloak of "moral values," has forged a mighty coalition for the looting of America. With one hand they stretch upward for the pearly gates, and with the other they reach down and behind your back to pick your pocket or your purse.
Their appointed poster boy is George W. Bush. Everything he knows, he learned here in Texas. Unfortunately.
No wonder the (now exposed and disgraced) neo-con operative recently in charge of PBS spent taxpayer dollars to monitor "anti-Bush," "anti-business" and "anti-Tom DeLay" guests on Moyers' show." Moyers is a spot-on, effective and knowledgable critic of the charade of "compassionate conservativism." A true danger to the money-changers and warmongers who have made Texas into Taliban Lite then incubated and promoted the vile spawn of "century of involvement in oil, armaments and global intrigue" to the highest office in the land.
An indifference to other people's reality remains the mark of the system of privilege and patronage that is Texas politics.
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What the hurricane exposed is what the progressive advocate Robert Borrosage calls the "catastrophic conservatism" of the long right-wing crusade to denigrate government, ˜starve the beast," scorn its purposes and malign its officials.
We know now the results of their social ideal -- the "You get yours/I'll get mine" ethic as opposed to shared sacrifice and responsibility. It's as if they had scissored out of their Bible, "I am my brother's keeper."
(HT: The Left Coaster: Catastrophic Conservatism, VIA American Street)
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