I urge you to read
this speculative Daily Kos post by cskendrick, which lists the author's notions as to the preconditions for a coup in the United States. I'll quote two:
Demonize Congress as the source of corruption and confusion, waste and wrongness with Washington. I mean, all those greedy, venal little men with little power, conniving at every turn, making...compromises. They are the problem...
Create a political climate of hostility toward institutions, parties and politicians, to ideas old and ideas new, a condition of agitation looking for release, any release. In such a Hobbesian condition, he who is strongest prevails, and it is a naked contest of power and will...
Seems to me that there are quite a few progressive purists willing to do these jobs on behalf of the right.
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I suggest reading Crane Brinton's Anatomy of a Revolution, shown here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/33hmhs
I think the one major factor working against any new and bold fascist coup in the US at this time is the extreme unpopularity of the Bush/Cheney regime. (Some could claim with a measure of truth that there has already been something of a quiet and gradualist, fascist coup.)
Sure, citizens have their complaints and dislike for Congress as a whole. However, I think it is mostly frustration with the representatives of other locales than their own who compete against their own parochial interests. Citizens still tend to re-elect the incumbents each election at a relatively high rate.
Even if there is some frustration with Dems not being aggressive enough to bring impeachment proceedings against the executive branch, no way can it be translated into favoring of the executive branch over the legislative branch and Democrats. The polls suggesting citizens dislike Congress more than the President are misleading because of the way the questions are posed.
All fascist governments are formed under the guise of populism. Call me crazy but I'm not entirely certain it will come with BushCO, today. I'm much more worried about the "solution" that will follow a seemingly inevitable political and economic collapse. I still think we're in the "Weimar" phase. I could be wrong but I believe there is still a thin ray of hope on the horizon. That is, when I'm not listening to Dave Emory!
there was a fascist coup d'etat when Kennedy was assassinated. The closet nazis (remember, the CIA was created with Gehlen, Hitless chief of intelligence on the Easter Front, and Allen Dulles as midwives) leaped into place and for all practical purposes have been making policy ever since. See how "they" sabotaged Carter? with the october Surprise.
Remember the definition of fascism is simply the symbiotic relationship and intimate policy arrangements by them with an elitist control. Perhaps a broad simplistic definition but what else is required to set it in place?
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