Reply #28: I would have...and did [View All]

I largely kept my trap shut, but when Orwellianism, Medevalism (Fundamentalism of all stripes and the merger of Church and State), and the Greatest Proaganda machine and Lie Laundry in human history come together, what else can the Enlightenment and freedom do but expire quietly?

There is deep within us all the Nazi, the desire to strike back at The Other.

These feelings were deliberately unleashed by what I like to call Goebbels v2.0 (the Bushevik Propaganda Machine and all the rest of their multi-pronged offensive against Liberty and Rationality), which used religion deeply just like v1.0.

Combine that with a 30-year effort to, as Vonnegut put it "disconnect the burglar alarms from the Constitution", a functional Constitution and a majority of people who believe in it being the only thing that keeps us from returning to pre-Enlightenment Medevalism, and you have your success.

Then, program your Zealots to believe they are fighting evil which allows them to break any law or ethics "in the service of a greater good or God" and you are ready to take over.

It was bound to happen, and I don't think Anerica will ever be free again.

Now, we wait for a whole truckful of Other Shoes to drop, including Bush Employee (or perhaps merely close personal business associate) Bin Laden, who's pro-Bush Campaign Commercial may have helped cement the "win", to attack us again.

Then his employer/business-associate Bush* can begin Phase 2 of the Reconstruction.

And May God have mercy on our souls.