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The US Government is heading increasingly towards a crisis of legitimacy. Part of this is because the Republican party has been trying and mostly succeeding for thirty years to make the public distrust government for it's own gain. The Democrats have done an amazing job at selling out the core beneficiaries (and it's base) of populist government policies of the 20th century to compete. Meanwhile corporations and internal government bureaucracies (i.e. The Pentagon & The Fed) have grown so far beyond their primary roles to capture crucial elements of the State. It's coming to a head. Bush's presidency was the first contraction, the economic implosion the second, this wikileaks situation? It's the robes being pulled off. It's showing in utterly bald faced realty how the media and the government are acting in utter collusion (a trend aimed at since the end of the Vietnam War). The idea of a working "fourth estate", once vital to American model of Democracy, is utterly dead. The rise again to the top of the heap of the Tea Party ( a modern Know-Nothing Party) only points out how utterly bankrupt the whole thing is - that a leader of that movement, a failed governor & VP candidate from a third tier State can so misunderstand the primary Amendment of the US Constitution and blatantly call out for the assassination of the citizen of another nation and still be considered "serious" by the media is a tell, as well as so many other things dropping at the moment.
I'm utterly convinced the US is done, in terms of it's historical mission. One hopes that the idea of freedom, enlightened republican democracy and the role of the individual do not die with it. The future will not be happening here. And as I said in the opening sentence, the whole thing is heading for a serious crisis of legitimacy unknown since the Civil War.
Wikileaks IMHO isn't the straw that broke the back of this faltering camel, but it's the straw before the last straw methinks.