Can we recall his election? I think we have grounds to prove he is mentally unstable.

Hey - you're not alone. Arizona, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, and a host of other states that have elected Right-Wingers are also a national embarrassment.

I do think it's time to bring at least part of this charade to an end by pointing out that the most reactionary states are, not coincidentally, Red states that are at the bottom of education and literacy standards for the country.

They have largely semi-literate populations that have no concept of how our government is designed to function, they don't know the difference between a representative democratic Republic, which is what we have, and Socialism, or Marxism, or Communism - terms that they throw around interchangeably and with obvious lack of understanding what any of it means.

They have the highest illegitimacy, and adultery rates in the country while claiming to act at the behest of their Bronze Age Old testament Diety.

They take the most from the Federal Treasury and give the least, all while claiming to want their independence from any Federal oversight.

And they cling to the racist concept that only whites should rule, and are the superior members of our society.

We can leave them in the dust as we progress, or we can try and drag them up, kicking and screaming, to where we are. But we absolutely should not let them make ANY decisions about how this country should proceed.

Their ignorance and superstition is poisoning our country.

beg 2 differ ral - the US is a corporate republic masquerading as a democracy.

This model isn't really true for Virginia. We went for Obama, we currently have two Democratic senators, and we're not poor or uneducated. What we are is apathetic. We have short memories. We had two good democratic governors in a row, but it makes Virginians twitchy to have only one party in power. Plus the Dems ran a crappy campaign with a lackluster candidate. I would argue that apathy is what is poisoning our country and letting the minority wack-a-doos take power.

And those leaders fell. Our best weapon against people like this is the use of Free Speech to point out their stupidity, self-contradictory positions and most of all, use humor. The current group looking to power-grab has a lack of humor in common with dictators and dictatorships. Let's make fun and have some fun, while never forgetting that "It Could Happen Here".

But Robert, why did those leaders fall? Because they set up governments that were inherently unstable. In every one of those totalitarian regimes, there was always internal turmoil, often instigated by the leader in order to keep any of his possible enemies as weak as possible. Whenever there was a hint that someone was getting a bit too powerful or popular, he was eliminated. In contrast, what have we seen during the Bush administration? Unwavering loyalty, even in the face of obvious incompetence or even criminal behavior, as was evidenced in things such as the outing of Valerie Plame, the vote fraud of 2000 and 2004, and illegal wiretapping. They could act with impunity because they knew that their corporate masters could protect them. Their eventual loss in 2008 wasn't a repudiation of their behavior, at least not in the eyes of the corporations...rather, it was a signal that they had to go to even greater extremes. As it was, their work over the past 3 decades had set up a situation where even their failures became great successes for them, as the bank bailout proved so aptly. You can mock and point out the stupidity and contradictions of their viewpoints and policies, but in the end, they have proven to be expert manipulators, and have been able to convince a vocal minority of Americans to unwittingly support their views. You could mock a T Rex for its ridiculous looking front legs, but it would still eat you as effectively as any other predator.

I was having a similar thought, specifically about the Nazis. After they came to power one of the things they did was to 'reform' (more like 'deform') all levels of education and the sciences to reflect their ideology. Things like history and biology were obviously things the Nazis wanted to twist for their own ends, but even seemingly non-ideological things like mathematics and physics were affected. Now, the GOP and the NSDAP are two different institutions and the latter is dead and gone. Republicans are not Nazis. However, today's GOP is drifting ever closer to the extreme right edge of the political spectrum. In terms of where they are, the GOP is more in the range of British National Party and other far-right (but not neo-Nazi--although that's being generous in the case of the BNP at least) parties in Europe.

Of course, the point about the Soviets is well taken, but the GOP is still a far-right phenomenon.

What people fail to realize is that the far right of today is a corporate creation. Are there angry, disaffected people out there who are anti-government? Of course there are...always have been, always will be. But have they ever been such a seemingly dominant force in American politics? No, and there is a reason why. People on our side of the aisle were very angry during the Bush years, (heck, even during the Reagan regime), but we didn't come armed to meetings with congressmen or even the President. We didn't elect officials who went to extremes that didn't reflect what the majority of voters wanted. Why? Because corporate America not only didn't see our viewpoints as useful...it found them downright antithetical to their goals. However, they now see things such as healthcare reform, financial reform and climate legislation as a threat to their power and their bottom line, so it's time to gin up as much opposition as possible. They do that by astroturfing, funding and building up groups that are ostensibly just regular citizens with a beef, making it appear that there is tremendous opposition to this path, when in fact, the numbers of people who strongly oppose these things are very small. Cucinelli is just another tool of corporate America, and people need to wake up to that fact. The right wing is most certainly not in its death throes, as it is the political arm of the corporations, and as such, will not only NOT disappear, but will grow even stronger now that the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling allows them to basically buy politicians on the open market, rather than skulking around in the shadows with their campaign donations.

Well said and salient. Thank you for intelligent input.

Fascism, "the merger of corporate and state power, combined with a belligerent and jingoistic nationalism."

Reagan started us on the path to Fascism, Bush/Cheney took us almost all the rest of the way there. Now that Obama is trying to do a relatively mild course correction away from that, the Plutocrats who smelled total victory during Bush/Cheney are enraged to see the possibility of having victory snatched away at the last minute and they are determined to stop Obama - at all costs.

I'm sure there are CEOs in this country whose fondest dream would be a riled up white supremacist getting close enough to rid them of their "problem".

whoa ral - didnt u get the jonah goldberg memo wherein fascism is leftwing? ck out blogsforvictory.com then rpt to a FEMA reeducation camp. ps - i replied to an earlier comment of urs before i read this one in which we agree.

oh yea - interesting that eisenhower warned about the "military-industrial complex" yet his own party (gop) is deaf.

Eisenhower's republican party is nothing like the beast that exists today. In fact, today's repubs would probably call Eisenhower some kind of communist, lefty or traitor. As has been pointed out by many recently, even Reagan couldn't pass the purity test of today's repub party. They are also not the republican party of Lincoln. No, it truly is a manifestation of fascism, as so deftly defined by ral above. As such, it isn't a "party" any more than the Communist Party is a party. They don't represent a group of like-minded individuals who come together to formulate policies and solutions to problems, and then try to convince others to join in the discussion. Instead, their agenda is set by corporate America, and they then do their best to manipulate people just long enough to win an election. When that doesn't work, as in 2000 and 2004, they know they have other options, whether it is a Supreme Court crafted by their predecessors, or electronic voting machine companies that can throw the vote for them.

Bam! Right on the money!! Obama warned us too, he said during the campaign that power never relinquishes willingly - he knew what this would be like.

How sad that one of the most intelligent and rational thinkers in US history, Thomas Jefferson, came from a state that is now contending for the title of "State With the Most Ignorant Dunderheads".

I think we're way past that point.

I wish...