The New York Times : It's Called Torture

The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: It's Called Torture

This may seem like old news, and that may part of the problem. How can we remain mute about this outrage. Torture by MY government is torture in MY name.
Thanks to amtalkingheadradio and late night "comedians," the attitude of "he must be guilty if they arrested him" has grown geometrically in the past ten or so years. Even cable teevee has "legal experts" telling why defendants are both guilty and innocent beyond a doubt.
Now those red-staters revel in seeing "terists" tortured, and blue-staters cringe in fear of the redists, or sit apathetically by, unconsciously waiting for a social leader to rally them to a cause. Any cause.
And therein lies the rub. The redists never have lacked loudmouthed bullies while decent people always have tried, well, to be decent. It no longer works because we're grossly outnumbered and outgunned.
Most people don't go anywhere near the blogosphere. They still depend on electronic media (read: worthlesscorporatemedia or vast, right-wing conspiracy) to get them fired up.
The result is that the redists have their rabble rousers, but we don't. They have people calling torture "pranks," but we have no one of equal quality rousing a different rabble.
America needs a charismatic progressive in the next few minutes, or the redists will succeed in their 225-year-old dream of turning this ridiculous thing called "America" back into a theocratic feudal Europe.
Any takers? We're waiting.