But to our hyper-modernists in the conservative movement and the GOP, none of this really matters. Now we have a large, well-equipped military to "liberate" other countries in the name of "democracy." Our rulers also have at their disposal a vast administration to oversee our behavior and to keep us from discriminating against designated victim groups. And that administration also collects our earnings and gives us back part of them as "entitlements." Isn't that what democracy is about? Who the hell cares if the country was bled white in order to achieve it? It was not our pasty-faced neocon scribblers who died in the disasters they celebrate. Other Americans did so that new rulers could prosper. Like other regime changes, democratic ones were and are about the circulation of elites.
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