Here, The Nation accuses the Bush administration of advancing an agenda of Inverted Totalitarianism. They are off the reservation. But, what is interesting is that their own article seems to complain that our nation is too democratic.

The Republicans have emerged as a unique phenomenon in American history of a fervently doctrinal party, zealous, ruthless, antidemocratic and boasting a near majority. As Republicans have become more ideologically intolerant, the Democrats have shrugged off the liberal label and their critical reform-minded constituencies to embrace centrism and footnote the end of ideology.

If the Republicans have a near majority, and the Democrats (who, apparently, are also complicit in "inverted totalitarianism") are centrists, we are left with only the Democrats' former "critical reform-minded constituencies" as the folks who should be in charge. But isn't it anti-democratic to push out the near majority party and the centrist party to put others in power? Or is it that totalitarianism and inverted totalitarianism are odious, but double secret non-inverted totalitarianism is ok?
- posted by Tom Sawyer @ 7:49 AM