Are you perhaps unconvinced about my claim that we might be on the verge of fascism in America? The whole premise is based on (1) Whites are seriously freaked about not being in total control and (2) the GOP claims they are ordained by God to be in power. Some corroborating evidence:
Steven Thrasher (who is black) wrote an essay for the Village Voice titled White America Has Lost Its Mind. He describes several recent examples, all fairly well known so I won't repeat them. I will only quibble with the date he gives for when it started. He thinks it started when Obama took office in 2009. I think it started more than a decade ago, which is (in hindsight) when the GOP seriously started messing with the democratic process. Karl Rove has been working for quite a while.
The GOP has laid down the gauntlet, declaring if they take over a chamber of Congress there will be no compromise on anything. That statement came from Rep. Mike Pence of Indiana. Since they intend to roll back most of the 20th Century it will be a tough two years. I suspect Obama will either grow a spine and wrestle them to a standstill or he will be completely flattened. Put another way they intend to prove that democracy doesn't work.
The Washington Spectator edition for November 1 is almost entirely about the huge amounts of undisclosed money pouring into key contest, mostly the Reid/Angle battle in Nevada. It also has colorful accounts of the characters behind the scenes -- most notably John Roberts and Karl Rove. Alas, no link.
Dave Johnson lists the 8 biggest lies perpetrated by the GOP -- Obama tripled the deficit, raised taxes, bailed out the banks, his stimulus didn't work, his health care will cost a trillion, business will only hire if they get tax cuts, Social Security is a Ponzi scheme, and government spending takes money out of the economy. I've heard some are wondering why mainstream media aren't working to expose these lies.
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