#40 Whiskey

I see that you are giving the short form of the optimistic case. In that event, I only disagree with you on one point:

Obama is no dictator, he is a bloodless technocrat

I see no reason for this belief. He would not have to do it himself; any more that a certain Austrian named Schickelgruber or a certain Georgian named Djugashvili had to do the killing themselves. There were more than enough willing members of the Schutz-Staffel or Cheka/OGPU/GPU so that neither had to do their own “wet work”.

We have been engaged in the Cold Civil War for a generation. The Left, the Democrats and their allies, do not consider their political/cultural opposition to be fellow citizens or human. Just review the epithets of the last few decades. They have contempt for the Constitution and the rule of law. Violence and felonies are already routinely excused as being part of the “ends” and “means” argument. During the election, I have personal knowledge of a group of Democrat city officials in Pueblo, Colorado calling for the imprisonment in concentration camps of all Republicans and conservatives if Obama should win. This was at a social gathering, and their tongues had been lubricated just enough for them to speak their minds. The very language one hears whenever Democrats’ real words escape [remember, "bitter clingers to guns and religion"] shows their contempt for us.

When things start going south, I have every expectation that deaths, intimidation, and disappearances will be resorted to as they try to cling to power; knowing that a real election would mean payback for what they have done to the country.

There is no more a Socialist dictator who is not a murderous tyrant in the end, than all of the darlings of the Left who became dictators in their own countries were “Peaceful Agrarian Reformers™”. There is a natural human tendency to hope that their enemies, once ascendent, are not as bad as objective observation would show them to be. That hope, historically, has never been fullfilled.

Three Chinese curses:

May you live in Interesting Times.
May you get your wish.
May you come to the attention of the Authorities.

All three are coming to pass… now.

Subotai Bahadur