When scandal is no longer scandalous, we have entered the Roman imperial zone. Americans understand on some level that they have no real say in what the military-industrial-complex does with our tax dollars and with the lives of those fellow citizens it uses as cannon fodder. The political class is just the civilian face of those un-elected men and women in the Pentagon who hold real political power. The mass media, which has betrayed our democracy, substitutes infotainment for news that might otherwise rekindle our insurrectionary desire.
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