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I've been around as an adult from the early 60's. I saw a Congress ruled with an iron hand by Democrats totally collapse and be taken over by Facists in the disguise of Republicans around about the mid-terms of 1994. (The Repubs campaign was beautiful---they played on the frustrations created by years of Reagan and Bush I and screamed "throw the bums out"---and because the Congress was Dem dominated, the idiot sheep voted "the bums" out which meant Repub replacements. And the rest, as they say, is history). But here's what scares me to the bone now.
It was possible within the framework of democracy and waging a good hoodwink, bullshit campaign like the Repubs did to create the "revolution". Today I think it is utterly impossible unless the "powers that be" keep the populace happy by "allowing" us to elect some Dem who is a kissing cousin in philosophy to the Bush clan!!! Now the citizens have access to only the information the facists want through the media. Now the facists have used technology to make the populace feel all warm and fuzzy about voting while they are electronically altering their votes. Now tv has spread the con-man poision of the right-wing Christian branch of the facists movement. I honestly don't see how even with great organization and money raising we are ever, ever going to see one of those usual, predictable, eventual changes in the government. And, more importantly, I believe that anyone that is 'getting through' to the public as it becomes increasingly frightened, abused and used by these people will find themselves visited by a new brand of Mafia.
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