Reply #55: That's been my read on it, too, Professor! Greed is their main motive. [View All]

The Bushi'ites are not exactly Nazis, in that respect. They are not tooling up a great industrial power. They are not into "making the trains run on time"--efficiency, competence, goal-oriented purpose. They are not even into convincing anyone of anything--transforming society. They are just into hoodwinking people long enough--and hanging onto power long enough--to loot us blind.

But I DO think that our corporate rulers are preparing something worse, down the line, when all these new tyrannical powers of the executive will still mostly be in place. (I don't think that the War Democrat, whom they are going to shove down our throats next, is going to rescind all those powers. She may not use all of them. But there will be no restoration of law and order and constitutional government. The powers will be there for after they get rid of her--when they've gotten their military Draft, and everything else they need (such as blaming everything--financial, foreign policy disasters--on the Democrats)).

What Hitler took over was a shattered country. That's where we're going. And one key component of that takeover was the splintering of the center/left and its inability to govern. This is one of the reasons I intend to back Hillary to the hilt. I'll even cheer her on as to the Draft.* (It'll be great to see the Bush twins in boot camp.) Because I think that will be our best window of opportunity to get election reform quickly, on a national basis--something like Russ Holt's bill HR 550, which (among other things) bans undisclosed "trade secret" software. (That will get the corporations out of it in one fell swoop.)

*(There may be another reason to support a Draft--to get the private contractors out. "Citizen Army" and all that. And if rich and middle class kids are being drafted, we might actually stop war. It sure threw a monkey wrench into Vietnam. Didn't stop it, but gave people big pause, and a big lesson in the realities of unjust war, which most people have not forgotten. The corporate rulers, of course, would not have that purpose in a Draft--democratic opinion hindering war. But our coffers are empty. We can't keep paying for this private contractor hogfest in Iraq. We're tapped out. The volunteer military is tapped out. And to get Iran's oil, they need cannon fodder. THAT will be their purpose. Cheap cannon fodder. MY purpose will be ELECTION REFORM and restoration of DEMOCRACY. And I don't really know what Hillary's purpose is, possibly just to grab the main chance. With peaceniks and populists automatically excluded--by devious means or by outright assassination--the only kind of Democrat who can get nominated and reach the White House is a pro-war, pro-corporate Democrat. And that's what I think is in the works. It may calm things down, temporarily--but with the intention of stirring things back up, on cue, to shatter the center/left, and install the real Hitler....Jeb? )