Reply #15: That's what Manny Goldstein said. Many of the preparatory measures [View All]

[Joe Chi Minh]

had been put in place, prior to the Dem's take-over of the House and Senate: highly significant preparatory measures, eminently characteristic of the rise of Hitler's Nazi regime.

Furthermore, I think we have the residual worldly cunning of the real powers in the land, our corporatist overlords, to "thank" (I use the word in a purely metaphorical sense) for Bushco's electoral losses. They have always been capable of great foolishness, but they will always remain strategic thinkers.

Like the good folk of New Hampshire, they not only saw the imminent, nay, incipient economic catastrophe, which may, in large measure, still be unavoidable, and would have been terrified, but they also realised that the USA and its people can in no wise be compared with pre-WWII Germany, in terms of malleability to the wishes and power of the engineers of a coup d'etat.

Moreover, the USA still exists, indeed, more than any other nation, in an international context, in the full glare of international publicity, and if Bushco were to be persuaded that the time is ripe to begin a reign of terror on any and every dissident American, it simply wouldn't fly in practical terms. Yes, with the media and bent electoral system, they still had their naive supporters, but nowhere near enough, in the teeth of the constant truth-telling onslaughts of the politically-savvy on the Internet, which was bound to eventually prevail.

No doubt our corporate overlords would have wished it otherwise, but in worldy terms, they're not fools. Except perhaps in their inertia, the length of time it's taken them to come to their senses and bail out.