>>sounds good, but no way the dem senate votes to convict.<<
I’ve said since summer of 2009 that I do not believe Urkel will finish his term. I’ll add a caveat: There is one way he could, but it is along the lines of dictatorship, but a new hybrid for the new millennium. They seem to be pretty creative with that stuff.
Hope you are right. The USA can’t survive much more of Barry’s shenanigans.
>>> I’ll add a caveat: There is one way he could, but it is along the lines of dictatorship, but a new hybrid for the new millennium. They seem to be pretty creative with that stuff.<<<
This is what I fear, too. Of course any American dictatorship will be creative in its implementation and administration, since the Founders did such a good job of undermining tryanny. Mark Levin calls it “soft tryanny.” I’ve worked most of my life in the print media and academia, so I can even see the experimental methods to establish a dictatorship on the sly being worked out in those professions.
From the print media side, there’s the use of embarressment and ridicule to diminish opposition. It’s quite good, and it doesn’t kill or imprison anyone while still maintaining power with the left. Palin’s wilding is a great example, but you can go back to the famous anti-Goldwater nuclear bomb ad to see examples. Palin is still allowed to speak, but her words come to you through a cloud of beliefs about her competence, intelligence, and wisdom. Alinsky points out that ridicule is impossible to defend against. On our side, we have Limbaugh mocking Ted Kennedy as “the philanderer,” which did the same thing to Ted that happened to Palin, but the media leftists stay on message and frankly own the bigger guns.
From the academic side, I can see dictatorship by committee. Everything is fair, in a way. There are volumes of rules, and everyone kowtows for diversity, but in the end, the conservatives, if they are loud, never seem to get the plum assignments. Do the wrong thing and you’ll be put on a plan of improvement. There are committees about committees, and the planning is endless.
For the larger culture, the dictatorship will be expressed in the same manner as the protodictators decided to ban incandescent lights and large-volume toilets. Someone will draw up a rule which will be enforced by an agency. Break the regulation, pay the fine. Maybe go to a posh hotel with a free breakfast over a weekend for a workshop admonishing you about what to do differently next time. Mao Tse-tung lite. Over time, of course, the regulators will try to move you to do the right thing, one regulation at a time.
And if you imagine you’re a Wolverine, who do you fight? That guy in a cubicle carrying out regulations from another guy in a cubicle? He’s just a guy. The head of state? That will get rid of a thousand agencies and the million bureaucrats? Your member of Congress? You mean the guy who funds all the agencies hiring your neighbors and family, and quite possibly yourself?
I hate to say this, but if we go this way, we have the opportunity to become the modern version of the Byantines, literally living off the greatness of our past, hidebound in the present.
I give all my prognostications 100 percent probability of being absolute Bravo Sierra. In any case, God help us.