Reply #19: Peacefully? He burned down the friken reichstag in 1933!!! [View All]

[MADem]

And people blew it off, because from the outside, no one wanted to interfere in the internal affairs of a government. Inside Germany, the mindless types liked the oratory, the big dream of belonging to the greatest nation in the world. But plenty of people who saw the writing on the wall LEFT as fast as they could pack.

Bush certainly is capable of declaring martial law, but he won't do it without a fight from every quarter, from the uniformed members of the armed forces to everyone from the moderate GOP to the screaming left. And he is no orator--he can't even string a simple sentence together. He cannot rouse the masses--even with stage managing, he screws up.

The country is not behind this guy like Germany was behind Hitler. Hitler was operating from a place where he was viewed as the guy who would bring 'honor and integrity' back to Germany after they got screwed in the aftermath of WW1--try as Bush might, a BJ in the WH does not rise to that level, and he overplayed 911, in addition to being AWOL when the shit hit the fan in NYC, PA, and DC.

In Germany, there was a massive nationalist fervor over there that Hitler was able to sustain over a long period of time, by telling people how great they were, and providing them with 'bread and circuses' along with a healthy dose of fear. I just don't see that here, flag-waving, sticker-displaying "morans" notwithstanding--he screwed up 911, and between that, Katrina, Rita, the dead coming home from Iraq, and prices going through the roof, we are neither getting bread nor circuses. And on a good day, Monkey can't muster adoring crowds like Hitler did.

I see plenty of embarrassment, humiliation, shame, and OUTRAGE at the way we are behaving from folks within this country. When the intellectual conservative (a bit oxymoronic, that) wing of the GOP is expressing horror and refusing to go along with the program, the house of cards is teetering.