Don't Be a Sucker - 1947 anti-facist film...

[yurbud]

13. I thought the far right was a joke until Bush came into power and members of Congress started...

talking like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter.

Suddenly, their violent rhetoric didn't seem funny--it seemed like a real threat.

I think we were lucky that not enough Republicans were stupid or reckless enough to pull the trigger on full fascism, probably not out of patriotism or moral constraints, but because they may have calculated the chances of success weren't great enough.

I think that's part of the point of the Tea Party. Replace the last of the Republicans in Congress who think for themselves from time to time with totally obedient idiots, who will burn the capitol to the ground if they got the nod from their wealthy patrons.