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. . . at the ascension of Nero, the rise of Stalin, Mussolini, McCarthyism. . .
People kept going to work, minding their business, thinking everything was fine, good little frogs in the pot of heating water on the stove, not noticing at first that anything was amiss.
Yeah, there's a lot "going on," but keep your head down, go to work, do your job, buy stuff, don't question, accept what you're told, shut up, OK?
When McCain is elected president, I predict that he'll resign within six months for "health reasons" and ostensibly turn over the reins of power to Palin. Of course, just like with Bush, real power will be exercised from elsewhere.
Thus will begin the final descent of the American airship of state into its controlled flight into terrain.
If you look how far we've fallen, from Eisenhower to McCain, there's been a steady, stealthy reduction of civility, human rights and honorable men.
Eisenhower stated almost fifty years ago that democracy's greatest enemies lurked from within, not without.
That was when it started - this is how it will end. After all, this is the country that reelected George W. Bush.
To paraphrase John Titor, "nobody in the future likes you very much. . ."
