Here's a thread about a conservative booklet written in 1938 (”The Revolution Was”) about FDR and the New Deal. Practically word for word it could have been written today.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/929392/posts
An excerpt:
The scientific study of revolution included of course analysis of opportunity. First and always the master of revolutionary technic is an opportunist.... But the one indispensable ingredient is economic distress, and if there is enough of that the mixture will take care of itself.
The Great Depression as it developed here was such an opportunity as might have been made to order. The economic distress was relative, which is to say that at the worst of it living in this country was better than living almost anywhere else in the world. The pain, nevertheless, was very acute; and much worse than any actual hurt was a nameless fear, a kind of active despair, that assumed the proportions of a national psychosis.
...and never before had there been the danger that a revolutionary elite would be waiting to take advantage of it.
...Nobody could say that about the elite above. It did belong, it was eminently respectable, and it knew the American scene. What it represented was a quantity of bitter intellectual radicalism infiltrated from the top downward as a doctorhood of professors, writers, critics, analysts, advisers, administators, directors of research, and so on a prepared revolutionary intelligence in spectacles. There was no plan to begin with. But there was a shibboleth that united them all: “Capitalism is finished.” There was one idea in which all differences could be resolved, namely, the idea of a transfer of power.
...The prestige of the elite was natural for many reasons; but it rested also upon one practical consideration. When the opportunity came a Gracchus would be needed. The elite could produce one.
The headline we will be reading in about 3-6 months will be very similar.
Legislature grants Obama broad new powers to shape New US Socialist System.
This is what is terrifying about the left, they simply will never recognize when one of their leaders is heading down the road to dictatorship. They’re liars and cowards by nature, they simply will ignore the elephant in the living room... especially with Chavez. And now with Obama.