Absolutely read this: If This Goes On….A Scenario. And read the comments (ignore the trolls, focus on people with insight and information).
Funny, when I wrote this, people said that I was “paranoid” while the point of the post that too many people are not paranoid enough.
I particularly like this comment by someone on digg:
I’d move to another country if I wasn’t so terrified of our foreign policy.
On one hand, I do not see the utility of moving from one country to another to another until finally dying on the last Pacific island to feel the influence.
On the other hand, I feel the obligation and the responsibility to stay here and fight, to slay this beast before it grows too big to overcome. Are you registered to vote next month?
We need to get every one of them out of office, at all levels from President to dogcatcher. Then, we need to put tremendous pressure on our new elected representatives to do what is right, to do it aggressively and to do it fast in order to bring the Enlightement back and roll back the effects of this last resurgence of pre-Enlightment religious and authoritarian ideology.
This is what I wrote back in July 10, 2004 – my very first post on my very first blog:
Thus, conservative movement is a creed of rich white Christian guys who are still peeved that Medieval power-structure that had them on top is no longer around. They long for the non-existent Golden Age in the past, for the times of fairy tales in which all of them are princes and all of them can get to sleep with Cinderella. They know they are cornered and fatally wounded and are fighting ferociously for their very existence. Through lies and Orwellian language, they have duped millions to help them fight. They will do absolutely anything and everything to retain power, as they demonstrated in Florida recount in 2000. Their only hope for the future is election of George W. Bush. If Bush gets elected, they will be in a position to finish the job they started during his first term, that is, to dismantle democracy and any means through which progressives and liberals can challenge their absolute power, turning America into de facto one-party state. Reforms of the judiciary system, starving the social programs, rigging the voting machines, changing the rules how Congress and Senate operate, waging endless wars and flaming fear through the population – all those are components of the strategy for their survival. If successful, their program will turn America into a totalitarian society without any middle class whatsoever. Middle class is a rare and recent phenomenon in history. A state that wants to foster a free-market economy needs to first form and, through laws and regulations, protect the existence of middle class. The conservatives have a different economic model in mind, one comprised of a few rich guys at the top and a quarter billion enslaved workers, too poor, tired and scared to speak out, with no protection by the courts.
Will they go with a bang or with a wimper?