Reply #43: Fascists? Here?

[outinforce]

"Bottom line is the overwhelming horror that America has been taken over by fascists and her people are powerless to stop it."

Put your mind at rest -- all of you on the other side of the pond.

The election of Arnold in California does not mean that "America has been taken over by fascists and her people are powerless to stop it."

Politics in this country is, in many ways, local. Unlike elections in most continental countries, our local elections are truly local. The recall of California's governor, and the election of Arnold to that post had much more to do with local issues than it had to do with anything remotely affecting America's foreign policy.

Arnold, though a Republican, is certainly NOT the sort of person with whom Jacob had his exchange of email correspondence. The people who voted for Arnold were, I am certain, not overwhelmingly facsists.

So please -- PLEASE -- put away your "overwhleming horror" and relax. This country -- and the world -- survived Jo McCarthy, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan.

We'll survive this, too.