V for Vendetta

I think one of the reasons I enjoyed the movie V for Vendetta is because though it might be fiction, there are rings of truth to it. Maybe I have an overactive imagination, or maybe I'm just a tad bit paranoid/cynical, but I can see our government getting to the point of total control and censorship- "for our own good." Some people laugh whenever I make a comment about our government slowly becoming that way, but we've already allowed them to have much more power than they had just fifty years ago. Fifty years from now...well, who can say how much power they will have then?

I read an article not long ago called "The Cult of the Presidency", and it kinda freaked me out a little. It was all about the original purpose of a president and a checks and balances government, and how that has slowly eroded. The author felt that since the early 1900's (the Progressive Era) we've slowly handed the reins of control to the president, trusting in him blindly. There have been setbacks of course, such as during the Vietnam War, but for the most part we do expect our President to be our sublime protector, our nurturer, our provider, our superhero. Just like people wanting President-elect Obama to have total control of Congress (or his party anyway)- why in the world does that seem like a good thing? No political party should have full control of the White House, Senate, and House. That's just asking for trouble.

If people don't pull their heads out of the sand and realize that there is such thing as a government with too much lee way, than we could very easily be headed for the world in V for Vendetta. Maybe not tomorrow, or next year, but on day. And what's really scary is that nobody seems to care.