No Direction Home
by Chris Floyd
“How does it feel
To be on your own
With no direction home.”
Bob Dylan, “Like a Rolling Stone”
Let’s be clear about one thing. Nothing that has happened in the past week — the mass destruction in the Mississippi Delta, the obliteration of the city of New Orleans, the murderous abandonment of thousands of people to death, chaos and disease will change the Bush Administration or American politics at all. Not one whit. The Bush Administration will not reverse its brutal policies; its Congressional rubber-stamps will not revolt against the White House; the national Democrats will not suddenly grow a spine. There will be no real change, and the bitter corrosion of injustice, indifference and inhumanity that is consuming American society will go on as before.
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