All We Need Now...

...is a good, old-fashioned witch-hunt.

Ya know, something to fan the flames of hysteria just a little bit more. Somebody (Osama spotted in Vegas!), some group, some objective to get us all spooked and upset and anxious and nervous.

The stage has been set for a run at fascism, American style:
U.S.-sponsored torture

Illegal government wiretaps

Surveillance cameras in our major cities (Chicago, Houston)

Random police searches in Subways (New York, Detroit)

Re-classifying government documents

Public sentiment regarding un-American activities

Government persecution of whistleblowers

U.S.-sponsored propaganda

and so-forth (like massive voting fraud, an illegitimate war, a leader "called by God" and empowered by "God's chosen people").

Kinda spooky, huh?

All we need now is one little group of folks to rally some hatred. To focus our collective disdain, to keep us busy and distracted.

I'm predicting some sort of Muslim McCarthy Madness mid-March, ya know...mullahs in our midst and all that. But we'll just have to see how the bullshit politics of fear and hatred continue their slow creep into our collective consciousness.

Two more years to go, I guess....unless something "horrible" happens and the 22nd Amendment is revoked. Ahh....King George, has a nice ring to it.

Maybe I'm just being cynical...but history has a way of repeating itself. I just hope there's enough folks who'll remember there's more to a brown shirt than getting it on sale at J.C. Penney.