Mr. Moyers does often come across as the high priest of the sane.

Karl Marx once said that wars are awful events pitting ordinary people one against another for the benefit of the wealthy, the powerful, the aristocrats.

Right wingers disguised as "good Americans" would prefer you did not read Marx or Moyers for they just may give you an idea they don't appreciate.

There is some sort of perverse sense of perfection in the fact that DeLay and Abramoff were profiting from, once again in the history of this nation, ripping off Native Americans and sweatshop labor. I mean really, how beautiful is that?

Let's get back to Marx for a moment though. See wars, they aren't just fought with bombs and guns out on some ravaged battlefield, they are fought right out there on sunny suburban streets too. They are fought in living rooms, shopping malls, coffee shops, in your car on the way to work, and most obviously now in our religious institutions. Anywhere that the wealthy and the powerful can benefit from pitting ordinary poor and middle class folk against one another.

Sure it's a grand spectacle when we carpet bomb a country or the media is imbedded to video a squad of American youngsters from poor and lower middle class families attacking a small town full of possibly well armed but even poorer folks. That all makes for great tv but you can't keep a production like that up and running unless you are winning the battle for hearts, minds, and wallets.

So, you need to create a war at home too. A war about morals, a war about abortion, a war about taxes and gas prices, a war about healthcare, a war about race, a war about sexuality, a war about drugs. How about a war on terror? You need to have enough of these wars going to get people pitted against one another because their anger, their moral outrage, their distraction, their disorientation motivates them. They will give you their vote, their money, their hearts and minds, their soul, and even their children. Everybody has a war they want to win don't they? 

Sure they do. Profits ride on this simple fact.

The one thing that the Bush administration has been able to do perhaps better than any administration before them is to polarize people. That is the one area where they have truly shined.

Anybody think that was an accident?