Did you catch that last line? Tight race? The people of North Carolina like this sort of thing? How is there hope for America when the people want to elect cold blooded killers to their Congress? And who are the people behind him?
Raw Story elaborates about the support Pantano has been able to get. " Pantano has been able to raise almost $1 million for his campaign. He has received endorsements from the Veterans In Defense Of Liberty, the North Carolina Chapter of Eagle Forum, far-right blogger Pamela Geller, and a number of other conservatives."
Is this where we're headed? Recently long time Fascism watcher Sara Robinson published her latest report on the ever-threatening "totalitarianism-creep" factor in the upcoming elections, "Fascist America: Is This Election the Next Turn?" and asked, are we there yet? Her result? Maybe.
Robinson recognizes the work of Robert Paxton as the authority in the field of studying the process a democracy goes through as one collapses and crumbles into fascism. As she often does, Robinson quotes him extensively. Paxton identifies, three final warning signs to awaken citizens to soberingly real possibility our country is sliding past the point of no return. which an emerging fascist regime has too much power to be stopped:
"1. Are [neo- or proto-fascisms] becoming rooted as parties that represent major interests and feelings and wield major influence on the political scene?
2. Is the economic or constitutional system in a state of blockage apparently insoluble by existing authorities?
3. Is a rapid political mobilization threatening to escape the control of traditional elites, to the point where they would be tempted to look for tough helpers in order to stay in charge?"
Yes, yes, yes in all three cases. We've let this virus grow inside us and now it's eating us whole. No matter which way the elections fall, we are all going to lose. If they land even the slighest advantage, then like they did with Clinton, like they did with Carter, the GOP will bully Obama to exhaustion and everyone will suffer while nothing gets fixed.
That's the best case scenario. If, somehow, the Dems retained some power, you can predict all kinds if retaliation. Bullies aren't good with being told no. As Sharron Angle notes they're ready to resort to "Second Amendment remedies." Are we about to devour ourselves?
Bye, bye, Gordon Gecko. Greed is good, war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength. Thanks for the cancer, now we've all got it. We're all bullies. It's the American Way. And just like you, this might be our curtain call.
George Orwell once predicted the future would be a boot, smashing a human face. Forever. I fear the future is here--
--mikel weisser writes from the left coast of AZ.
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