How to take over America

[LiberteToujours]

1. Replace journalists with pundits who adhere to a specific political party.
2. Let boil for several years. Right-wing pundits convince fans that left-wingers are communist whackos. Vice versa, replacing communist with nazi.
3. Population now so blind with continual rage that everyone is an apologist for their side, and lives in an illusion where their side can do no wrong.
4. Openly violate the Constitution. Watch your side support you because their hate for the other side is stronger than their concern for their own future. Congratulations, the Constitution has lost all meaning and nobody cares, you have succeeded in your coup.


I think we will get through this, but we are learning an important lesson. When the Democrats are in power again, we have to be vigilant on our own leaders. We cannot act as irresponsibly as the Republicans are. Someone has to be the one to cool things down. We need to start by no longer blindly supporting our own side in the face of Republican criticism (maybe they have a point! Let's listen!), and then we need to tackle the media so they will stop getting people fired up. This situation is a perfect example of why one party controlling all three branches of government is NEVER a good thing for the American people.

[lvx35]

1. Mostly agreed, but you have to look at the current situation.

The republicans are ruthless, we need to go after any power we can get our hands on right now...But as far as what you said about monitoring our own party, you are right. We let serious authoritarian moves by Clinton slide. When I started researching what the right wingers were bitching about, I saw that some of their points were COMPLETELY valid, and the government moves were laying the authoritarian foundations Bush is building on. One of those things is what happened at Waco, which was completely fucked. After I saw the pictures of burned childrens bodies and realized Time magazine was lying about things that were matters of obvious record, I realized right wing outrage was completly valid. Here was a government agency attacking american citizens with tanks, immolating american children, ON AMERICAN SOIL. Both sides need to get wise to this crap.

[xchrom]

2. you assume that with democrats in place that republicans

will abandon a strategy that got them in power in the first place.

i think you underestimate what is going on -- republican critisism isn't honest.

[liberal N proud]

3. Have no fear - The left is vigilant of all lawmakers, Repuke or Dem

The only reason the Repukes have ever won an election in this country past criminal activity on their part is because the liberals don't tolerate crap from anyone. Regardless of the party affiliation the left looks at the leader for who they are and what they stand for, not what party they belong to.
The right wing fundies will only vote one way, Republican.

Great post

[FormerDittoHead]

4. And to make #1 clear - finance pundits with think-tank tax free dollars

The real secret, you see, has been to do #1 using public money!

I'm glad you made your #1 point, but, IMO, you didn't go far enough.

Our tax code is clear. Politics is NOT tax deductable. So why donations to the Heritage Foundation, or the Cato Institute, to name two, is tax DEDUCTABLE in the same way you're giving money to the Red Cross is totally wrong.

Let's make THAT our number #2 concern for when we take back our government!

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. Historically, Democrats have watched their leaders

I can't think of a time, even in the midst of the Depression, when all Democrats blindly followed their man in the White House. That's one reason we had sanity and not a dictatorship all those years when Democrats had the majority in both houses of Congress and also held the White House. I don't know what it is about repuke mentality that they feel they have to follow their leader, no matter what. Even in Nixon's time, some Republicans knew when enough was enough. Nixon would never have resigned unless he heard it from Barry Goldwater that he was through, he'd lost even his own party's support. I don't know whether the neocons ran off Republicans of conscience and replaced them with robots or what, but the fact that no repuke member of Congress appears to have a spine when it comes to standing up for what is right and Constitutional bothers me a great deal.