Reply #177: Yes, and even though there are variations on the theme, the main thesis... [View All]

...applies, that we are going through the "frog in a pot" scenario.

Just as a post like this at DU brings out the big guns of, for example, a young and admired writer who loses his manners, if ever he had any, in trying to refute this idea, there were those in Germany who were in equal states of denial. Germany, they said, was an enlightened society. And we've all heard the "It can't happen here" theme that *did* happen there.

I'm a "war baby," and I know from my father's experience in The War, as well as all the reading I've done, that we are in greater peril than the Good Americans want to acknowledge. And our "Goodness" these days is more of a trap than it was in Germany, circa 1939. We still labor under the illusion of our own superiority and of an unfailing economic system. I fear it will take a real "taking down" before most of America wakes up, and by then it may be too late.

At some deep level, we *all* know we're being moved along into a fascist state, and the underlying fear causes all kinds of reactions -- some of which are to throw darts at the messenger.