Rurik: Just so. People seem to forget this. There were elections in the USSR. They were completely meaningless, but they held them, and just a regularly as we do.

This is a key problem: The American Left has managed to completely obscure how the Soviets came to power and maintained that power. They did it exactly as the Democrats are going about it now. The average American today would be surprised to find that the exact same slogans and tactics where used by the Bolsheviks, Maoist, et al. as far back as 100 years ago. They have never really changed, they have just adapted to new technology and burrowed further and further into the key institutions of our world. This is the bitter fruit of the NEA and the co-opting of the educational apparatus by Marxists.

I constantly run into this issue with folks under 50 or so. It is nearly impossible for them to grasp how they are being manipulated or for them to extrapolate from the political and economic history of the last 200 years just where this all will most likely lead. The bitter truth is that it is difficult for them to grasp that they can be manipulated or just what is at stake.

I would guess if there cannot be a radical groundswell in the next year and a half then we will not have an honest election for quite some time, perhaps never again. Imagine what they can do when they sit in power over the control of that election; Imagine what the electioneering mischief that they can get up too with trillions of dollars.

It is absurd that they have gotten this far. Minnesotans should be outraged about that election. I do not hear any outcry from that state. The Coleman affair will quite embolden them next time around. We will see scores of cases like this in 2010.