These AREN'T Normal Times

[kpete]

Right now all that should matter to any of us is defeating the most radical, authoritarian, anti-intellectual Republican class in modern memory (and that's saying something.) They were thoroughly repudiated at the polls in the last two elections and they haven't learned a thing from those losses. Indeed, the lesson they took was that they hadn't been aggressively wrong enough. Instead of seeing where they went wrong and making adjustments, they've doubled down on their worst policies and are prepared to go even further.

In normal times they wouldn't stand a chance of doing any better than a normal midterm and would probably do worse. But these aren't normal times. The average American is frightened and confused while the rightwing is excited and overstimulated. The toxic combination of Bircherism, big money, xenophobia and social conservatism that defines the Tea Party is happening at a moment of maximum danger.

Those of you who are following the day to day see the danger signs:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/thugs_b_774283.html


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* Alaska Senate candidate Joe Miller hires a group tied to a paramilitary militia to do security for him, and his paratroopers assault and handcuff a citizen journalist just trying to get a question answered.

* a bullet is shot through Rep. Grijalva's campaign office window, and obscene threats and dangerous chemicals are delivered to his ofc as well.

* Rep. Perriello's gas line to his house was cut.

* Republican congressional candidate Allen West using a motorcycle gang known for violent criminal activity for security, and then gang members actually harassed and bullied a Democratic staffer trying to videotape a public event.

* Vandalism and assassination threats occur at offices of Congressional members during the health care fight.

* a doctor who performs abortions in KS is brutally murdered while coming out of his church on a Sunday morning.

* a guard at the Holocaust Museum is murdered by an anti-Semitic racist stoked by listening to Limbaugh and Beck.

* a lunatic also stirred up by Glenn Beck shows about the Tides Foundation is stopped on his way to murder people at the Tides office in San Francisco.

more:
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/theyre-from-tea-party-and-theyve-come.html

[jillan]

1. Not to mention their 24/7 Cable news station that feeds the radical ideas.

[Initech]

2. Does the Fux Propaganda Network *WANT* a civil war?

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Not if they can get total control of the country without it.

[bjobotts]

36. Most of us realize this election is a fight for the very survival of our nation.

[bjobotts]

37. If repubs take control of either house there won't be a 'next time' only a collapse of democracy.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes, that or preferably a coup

[RKP5637]

10. One does have to wonder about their ultimate agenda. Sometimes I think a coup is

sadly entirely possible. A lot of brainwashing goes on in this country.

[Initech]

15. I really do wonder about Fux's ultimate agenda, it's scary what they're after.

[tomp]

32. not just possible. we've already had two coups in my lifetime.

jfk assassination.

bush v. gore.

[Initech]

14. They already had their coup on January 21st, 2001.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Yeah but to keep illusions

I mean the one where the Constitution is suspended.

[Initech]

18. The teabaggers are always the first to bring up the constitution.

But I bet very few have actually read it, let alone completely understand it.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Sadly that is most Americans

Like religious folks who've never read the Bible, or Capitalists who've never read the Wealth.

As a nation we don't read.

[Initech]

21. In California you're required to pass a constitution test to advance 8th grade.

Which makes me wonder how many people cheated on it judging by the number of Fux News viewers around here.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. If you memorize but don't care

It goes in and out

[bjobotts]

38. FOX is cultivating destruction they think they will be able to control..hahahaha

[one_voice]

4. I'm gonna have to look up this one...

* Republican congressional candidate Allen West using a motorcycle gang known for violent criminal activity for security, and then gang members actually harassed and bullied a Democratic staffer trying to videotape a public event.

I must have missed it when it happened.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. And the list is not complete

We've attended tea party rallies. As a historian the parallels to... No, not Germany but Italy are just eerie. Only thing missing are the uniforms.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Preach it

I was told this ky event is isolated...

[Angry Dragon]

8. A s the elected officials look for terrorists around the world

they overlook the white terrorists in their backyard

[RKP5637]

12. Yeah, exactly my thoughts too, the really dangerous problems are brewing here

right in the US, not chasing terrorists all over the world.

[kpete]

27. yes

exactly,
peace, kp

[RKP5637]

9. I wish Americans were not so slow to wakeup to what is happening. This is such a

clueless country in so many ways. And some are foolish enough to think voting for the RW is going to give them a job. Their ignorance is appalling. What a bunch of suckers.

[Matariki]

11. Sometimes it seems we're headed toward Civil war.

Maybe the inevitable outcome of a two party system?

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. We are...

I first saw this five years ago. I predicted the increase in violence and was called a few names.

It matches what I heard from people I debriefed during the central American wars. Hot civil wars are preceded by cold phases. I am not sure if action now will stop it anymore.

[Angry Dragon]

20. Many urban assault vehicles are being built

[Matariki]

24. ?

care to explain that? Who's building them, and how do you know?

[Angry Dragon]

25. Polaris is building them is my understanding

A heavy duty ATV for military use

[depakid]

17. Welcome to the new normal

[OlympicBrian]

23. Welcome to the corporatocracy...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9395482

[RKP5637]

26. Chilling to read, but certainly plausible IMO and seemingly well underway. n/t

[srf Rantz]

28. Have a nice Fascism...

Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn?

more background by same author:

Fascist America: Are We There Yet?

...casual violence against immigrants, gays, and progressives may escalate as the Tea Party brownshirts become bolder, confident that at least some authorities will either back them up or look the other way.

In this scenario, the fail-safe point -- the point beyond which no country has ever turned back from the full fascist nightmare -- may well be behind us when we wake up on November 3. From there, the rest will play out in agonizing slow motion; and the character of the rest of this decade will hinge almost entirely on whether the corporatists, the militarists, or the theocrats ultimately get the upper hand in the emerging regime.

[deaniac21]

29. overwrought

[BanTheGOP]

30. NOW can you see that the GOP is NOT so much a "political organization" than a CRIMINAL ENTERPRISE??

I am SICK>>>>AND>>>>TIRED.....of moderate weenies of any stripe who does NOT think that the republican party is, in fact, an ILLEGAL ENTERPRISE that should merit its officers LONG YEARS IN PRISON. EVERY republican is a criminal, and should be treated as such.

To that end, we need to legally ban the party using RICO statutes. ONCE WE DO THAT, we will ELIMINATE virtually EVERY ATROCITY DESCRIBED IN THE OP.

Pure and simple. ANY other opinion other than this one is an APPEASEMENT to the bastard Nazis....that is ANY OPINION!!

[TheKentuckian]

31. The GOP is a long time racist terrorist organization.

Folks insisting on treating and thinking of them as "the loyal opposition" with simple philosophical disagreements is pretty much nutty to me.

[The_Commonist]

34. "ANY other opinion...

...other than this one is an APPEASEMENT..."

Oh really?

"...that is ANY OPINION!!"

Better watch it there, Bucky!

I know you're mad and all, and want to get your two-minute hate on, but that's just crazy talk.

[the redcoat]

33. "Anti-intellectual" is the only one I'm worred about

I don't believe Tea Baggers themselves are pro-authoritarian, though I believe the people they support are, which goes back to the resurgence of anti-intellectualism.

Also, with a well-informed populace, radical action becomes legitimate because the intentions are informed. So I will not denounce something simply because it is radical. The REAL danger is when radicalism is a result of mental manipulation by authoritarians. It is all made possible by anti-intellectualism.

[earth mom]

35. There is a reason many of us here on DU have been calling them RETHUGS for years.

They should also be called Sociopaths and Psychopaths.

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