Taken to the extreme, this is the beginning of the road that leads to Robert Mugabe and and a new oppressor class.
“Taken to the extreme, this is the beginning of the road that leads to Robert Mugabe and and a new oppressor class.”
To be more precise, this could be the road to a second war of independence for those of us who will refuse to fund or sanction such......
I'm waffling, of late, between the sweeping, dismal sentiments I post at times, and the countervailing reason that things rarely move in a straight line, but that events tend to change the trajectory of history all the time, so that what we extrapolate from today may be far removed from what actually happens. And, too, this obama character is not a known quantity; we assume the unknown is bad (and perhaps have good reason to think it is). We also don't know what history will bring us.
All that said, I read today about Mugabe putting his rival in jail, and I thought, "that could happen here." But perhaps it cannot. I don't think we are easily enough oppressed for the average dictator. They're bullies, and they like easy prey. Right now, everyone's cooperating with the Obama campaign. But if that stops happening, it's all over. The same would be true for any sitting president.