Why didn't someone stop him??

[kentuck]

Is that what we will be asking 5 years from now? After the disaster of another 4 years of George W Bush? After the country slides into a depression, unlike any since the 1930's? After unemployment goes above 10%? After the deficits hit almost $1 trillion per year? After we get bogged down in the Middle East as the World goes to War? As the different branches of government are frozen in inaction? As the nation is more divided than at any time since the War between the States? As weak-minded bureaucrats follow blindly the advice of the most incompetent pResident in this country's history? As we slide into the pit of darkness, will someone ask, "why didn't someone stop him?"

[wuushew]

1. well I voted against him....

and it didn't work.

What more do you want me to do?

[dennis4868]

2. Most people voted against him.....

and it did not work. No one stopped him because we are seriously not living in a democracy anymore. Bush chooses who wins the election, chooses who runs the media, and who has power in congress. It's King George and there is nothing to do to stop him. Not Dean, Clark, or anyone else! We are al screwed!

[Clete]

3. Hmm, not to revisit Hitler, but I must.

There were many times along the way that the German people, their religious leaders and the free world could have stopped him, but they didn't. Not only that they facilitated his consolidation of power because they didn't believe he would really go where he went, no matter that the signs were there in big red letters, LIES, HYPOCRISY and BLATANT DISREGARD for the principles of the Weimar Republic he was sworn to uphold.

I see the same happening here from the beginning. When the Supreme Court intervened in the election, a strong coalition of Congress and/or Governors of our states as well as religious leaders could have intervened with strong words of disapproval and demanded that the Florida law be followed and not overuled by the Federal Court. It was a blatant and treasonous act by the very institution that is supposed to uphold the Constitution.

The complicity of Congress after that for all their acts and then the tragedy of 9-11, which consolidated the fear, making it a happy occasion for BFEE's widening power grab. Now this travesty of using the letter of the law to destroy it in California is a blatant power grab of the most powerful state in the union. If California folds then the rest of the country will follow from the domino effect, but I believe it is one of our diminishing chances to stop this cabal.

[kentuck]

8. And the little voice keeps trying to reassure us....

that it really is not the same...And the one thing that makes it possible is a propaganda system that promotes the agenda...

[chesley]

9. The problem with the Supreme Court having

so much unchecked power is that its decisions will not always go our way.

[rwork]

4. With what happened

in the east with the blackout, I feel like we are on the edge of an abyss.It seems like it would take so little to bring this great country down.

[htuttle]

5. One unfortunate thing I've learned from all this

When I was young, I tended to deny (or downplay) the German portion of my ancestry, on account of WWII and the Holocaust. I've always told people, "I'm Irish", when I'm about 50/50.

After the last couple of years, it's become all too clear how someone like Hitler could have come to power. After watching my own countrymen dance to the tune of these contemporary fascists in Washington, I'd come to have a bit more understanding on what it must have been like, even for those who vehemently opposed Hitler.

How can I fault my ancestors (though not directly related ones...we left in the 1800's) for something I've been -- so far -- unable to stop in my own country? In a sense, I guess I've been eating a little crow...

"Why didn't anyone stop him?"
Because those that could, wouldn't -- and those that would, couldn't.

[ComerPerro]

7. Amen

I always used to wonder how the hell Germans let Hitler rise to power and do all the horrible shit that he managed to accomplish.

Now I understand and appreciate how it happened.

Imperialism and Nationalism sells.
These damn people here are having too much fun with Mr. Bush's wild ride (and no, I'm not talking about his drunk driving or any of the several times he used cocaine).

[TNOE]

6. Sounds like a great Letter to the Editor

Although it would never be printed of course. Things just beat the hell out of me - I certainly don't get it. It's as obvious as the print in front of my face - but there are those that swear he is a "good Christian moral man" - and he is on the right path fixing all of Clinton's mistakes.

I give up.