But what about...

At this point, I need to outline how this project relates to the current political tides. Specifically, to G.W. Bush and the rest of them.

It's ridiculously clear to anyone who pays any attention that the Bush administration is taking the country downhill. With a disregard for democracy or morality except as rhetorical shields, a lust for power of every type but the long-term, and seeing any suggestion of compromise, precedent, or shame as weakness, they menace the security and livelihood of all.

I do not plan to focus on them very much.

For one thing, as I already said -- it's clear. Not to everyone, of course, but abundantly to Left Blogistan. Many people out there are much better at that sort of thing, and much more driven and prolific besides. To do my part, I'll make a few recommendations: Unclaimed Territory, Orcinus, Fafblog (sadly hibernating), and Daily Kos (if you have the time to skim off the cream).

For another thing, Bush unfortunately blurs the message I want to get across. By ripping up the status quo so brashly and malevolently, he encourages us in our opposition to cherish that same status quo. The ideologue sees him disregarding precedent, perhaps studies and finds a good reason that precedent existed, and talks less and less about the changes she herself wants to make.

At best, it's ephemeral. At worst, it becomes another blinder to true action -- and it is those very blinders I seek to expose with Spirit of '93.

Revolution is glorious because it overturns the sacred.

Farces like today's do not emerge in a vacuum, of course. The Bush Administration could not have come to be without a century or more of necessary development across the many American faiths -- religious, political, economic, and ethnic. The folly of our leadership will obviously be a ripe subject for commentary if they help illuminate the broader threats to Freedom and Equality that need attention. But on the whole, my concerns go beyond who happens to be in power.

Onward!