It is hard not to be exhausted after the past seven and a half years of this complete onslaught on our freedoms by the most corrupt administration in White House history. And it is not heartening to see the ignorance spouted by anonymous twits all over Alabama who still don’t get this because the local press simply will not give people accurate information. It’s all about the money, they say, and it appears to be true.

Even some of the folks from New York and other places who have gotten involved in helping to shine the spotlight on the injustices committed here are not entirely pure in their efforts here. The story is too complicated to explain in an e-mail message or a blog post, and certainly in a blog comment, which is a limited form of communication but never-the-less useful.

But as I sit here and look at Bill O’Reilly’s face in the Google ad to the left on the screen, I just want to escape to Zanadu or Nova Scotia until Rove is in jail and Bush is gone off to Paraguay. Maybe then America will once again be worth living in and defending.

Rove’s career is a case study that demonstrates some fundamental flaw with the governance system, that being a system so corrupt it tends to attract people like Rove rather than the honest and ethical.

The corruption is rooted in the now nearly unlimited access to resources and power exercised by the federal government, attracting Machiavellians like dead bloated cattle attract vultures. Individuals with any sense of decency and morality either never get involved or go screaming into the night, with a few notable exceptions.

Real change will not come through this year’s elections, nor indeed through any foreseeable ones, but through a change in the values of individuals. That will eventually manifest in cleaner and saner governance. Put another way, politics does not offer the solutions, but eventually politics will be transformed by cultural change.