On July 7, speaking before the American Civil Liberties Union, America’s top investigative reporter, The New Yorker’s Seymour Hersh, called the Bushistas a “cult.” He said neoconservative “cultists” have taken over every branch of the [incorporated] federal government, and are motivated not by riches, but a “utopian” vision.

Hersh called under-Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, who masterminded the invasion of Iraq, “the greatest Trostkyite of our times. He believes in permanent revolution.”

Yes, Trotsky was a communist, but he was more interested in power than ideology (e.g.: Marxism or democracy) and took a Machiavellian view of its use (5). The power cult migrates between left and right on the “political spectrum,” which filters the desire emanating from it, depending upon whichever color (i.e.: cover ideology) is perceived as the most beautiful (i.e.: expedient) means of achieving its secret desire for world dominion. Concentrated power that seeks to manipulate the way people live their lives has always been a threat to peace and freedom. Like any cult, Hersh asserts that the neocons have a public face that speaks of democratic ideals, and a private one that occasionally peers out from behind its mask, as it has with the Abu Ghraib torture photos, the PATRIOT Act, postponing the election, outing a secret agent to get revenge on her honest husband, et al.

The most disturbing thing to Hersh, however, is the current failing of American democracy:
“Look what happened to us…They [the neocons] took the edge off the press, they also muzzled the bureaucracy, they muzzled the military, they muzzled the Congress. And it’s an amazing feat. We’re supposed to be a democratic society. And all those areas of our democracy bowed and scraped to this group of neocons.”

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