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Yes, couldn't agree more. I've been thinking about this a lot recently, after reading Amity Shlaes's The Forgotten Man. I'm very much afraid that we will have another great lurch, this time into full socialism. So many on FR are assuming Obama will fail miserably and people will then see the light. I certainly hope so. But it could go the other way--the worse things get, the more the power-hungry Nanny-staters will attempt to use the crisis to authorize a lurch to total state control. Those who resist become dangerous terrorists and, using the fear the Nanny-staters jinn up, can be obliterated using martial law. Hugh Hewitt had a comment last night about someone who was analyzing Obama's use of fear as a motivator since the Inauguration. On the other hand, perhaps this time it's different because of the New Media. Grass-roots communication of the truth, unmasking the Alinskyites in the eyes of a critical mass of the sheeple, bypassing the MSM, is the only way out.

I've been thinking about this a lot recently, after reading Amity Shlaes's The Forgotten Man.

I need to find time to read that. I think the country has already "lurched" into socialism for the most part. Now the radicals seem to be seeking a "final solution," silencing opposition by any means necessary. Alinsky did his work well and his techniques seem second nature to most people of Baby Boomer age and younger. The Left has learned it can shout down any opposition, and the notion of truth has become quaint and outmoded. I had an experience with that just last week and it made me realize how close we are to the Brown-shirted police state you describe.