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To: fatnotlazy

It means that they dearly do want to have a dictatorship. But what’s missing is the religious fervor to carry it off. At this point, the fanatics are starving for religious fervor. Obama is unable to provide it, because he’s lost his anointed status. He’s not “The One (who will bring about Heaven on Earth,” just “the (one in a position to further our agenda).” Further their agenda he will, but the bloom is off the rose. Alexis de Tocqueville noted this, that those that seek centralized administration of every aspect of the lives of others must do it as a religious or semi-religious movement. Writing in 1834 (?) he held up as an example of what happens when that movement-like fervor fades, the Ottoman Empire, which originally was a theocratic despotism, then started reforming and secularizing itself, and as a result was left as a mere despotism and therefore was in rapid decline. Eric Hoffer also says that true believers need to have a powerful belief in the future in order to sacrifice the present to it. O had that sort of revivalist fervor behind him in 2008, but he’s lost it. Without it, he can’t destroy 230+ years of democracy. He might want to, but he can’t, unless he can revive that fervor. He still a sucky, left-wing megalomaniac. But the religion he wants to sell to the true believers is himself, and right now he’s not salable as a religion, merely a politician. That could change, of course. But right now, he’s a good deal below critical mass, even if he wins.


57 posted on 05/28/2012 4:13:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Eleutheria5
I hope for everyone’s sake you're right. Some of my gun toting friends and Freepers aren't taking any chances. They are buying up guns and ammunition. Between the New Black Panther rhetoric and reports of the TSA buying up military grade weapons and ammo, there are some who think it's all a precursor to possible armed conflict, maybe even civil war. It would not surprise me if Obama and his henchmen will create some sort of crisis before the November election in order to in some way declare martial law and create a dictatorship. In that case he might not need fanatics. He could just take over. Who would stop him? Congress?

I never used to believe any conspiracy theories. Then Obama and his supporters cane along. Now I'm not so sure.

96 posted on 05/28/2012 9:00:09 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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