You know what really scares me about Bush

[Fairlyunbalanced]

He's proved that a complete and total idiot can take us halfway to a fascist dictatorship...

What if the forces of evil find someone who is as far from ethical as The Chimp, but with a brain and an 8th grade vocab?

:yoiks:

[Skittles]

1. he is controlled

he didn't take us there

[unblock]

5. correct. he merely made it obvious.

[meganmonkey]

2. I'd say we're at least 70% of the way to a fascist dictatorship

:scared:

Welcome to DU, fairlyunbalanced! I love your username :)

:toast:

[A Simple Game]

3. Just halfway?

Are you always the optimist Fairlyunbalanced?

[Fairlyunbalanced]

6. Hehehe

Thanks for the welcome :D

I've been hiding in the shadows for a couple weeks here hehe.

This site has made me feel so much better about being an American. It's pretty lonely out there depending on where you live and who you work with.

Thanks guys!

[Metta]

4. Don't kid yourself. They're already there.

What puzzles me is why they even attempt at government. The press would roll over, for the most part, and they'd either impose martial law or get the secret police, I mean the secret service, to roll back the Constitution. Government already is a sham with them in power.

"Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Benito Mussolini

[Fairlyunbalanced]

7. Profit

I think for now they feel that more profit can be made with willing slaves than beaten ones.

I fear that if their moralistic coup of the American Psyche fails, they'll resort to just such brutal means.

Good thing we have the UN... maybe that's why they hate it so much? :shrug:

[Metta]

10. Asleep and sheep more than willing slaves, I think.

I think the majority of Americans are uninformed because they have to spend their time working to support themselves and their families and they don't read/ watch the news much, not that it's much truthful. So, they're led as sheep by their emotional noses. If they understood how the Republican party has been raping us these many years, there'd be armed riot, imho.

[Fairlyunbalanced]

11. Yeah Metta

my fiancee and I were just discussing that a moment ago. At least that's the only way i can swallow liking some repubs I know.

[Metta]

14. The connection breaks down with the bigger pictures.

They understand their humanity individually, within their families and in the community, I'm sure. When people stick to positions, they trade away connection in a larger sense with others. Position tends to realign. Intensity tends to polarize. Things fall further apart when people don't have secure containers to hold what they're going through. Not enough people do enough meditation. I'm sure this isn't true of me. :~~>

[proud patriot]

8. Welcome Underground

I think chimp is just the front man ,
he doesn't run diddley

[kestrel91316]

9. HALFWAY?????

[in_cog_ni_to]

13. No shit. I thought we were there already.

:scared: If not, I'd hate to see a real fascist regime. :scared:

[TahitiNut]

12. It's BECAUSE he doesn't look dangerous.

He's a bumbling, inarticulate, cowardly "good ol' boy" who's addicted to the reactions of those around him. We instinctively perceive no threat - he won't embarrass us by any outstanding performance that makes us look stupid in comparison and he cries out for attention with every gesture and sidling glance.

One must have the intellectual acumen to comprehend the ways in which incompetence and narcissism are a very real danger in that office - especially when all the real operations of government are conducted with a large dose of secrecy.

For those whose single-issue hatreds and biases who see the chance to ram through things which they subconsciously know are unwise and ill-considered, it's like kids having a house party while the parents are away for the weekend. At some point, they'll realize their parents died on that trip and the house parties will stop - as the horror of what they've done sinks in, at least for many.

It's been said often enough - without family money and the corrupt power of cronyism, Junior wouldn't have ever gotten off drugs or alcohol. He'd be lucky to be alive and not in jail - working in some low-level kiss-ass sales job and falling off some bar stool most evenings. In a just society, that's pitiful not scary. In the society we've got, he's a nightmare.