Phoenix Woman of FDL examines the FRC members most prominent among public figures, including some in or formerly in government and some currently in the military, and discusses the plans some are talking about publicly for overthrow of the US government or secession of some of the red states from the Union.
These Dominionists are people who want to establish by force a US government based on one or another version of Christian theology. Enough of them have loudly and publicly advocated a military takeover to force us to take them seriously.
So what is different now? what leads PW to bring up the subject? Follow some of the links in her post. It would be easy enough to dismiss the concerns if it weren't for the fact that some of these people are in a position to act on their rhetoric.
Showing posts with label Revolution. Show all posts
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Sunday, October 6, 2013
Monday, September 30, 2013
‛What's Next? A Coup d'État?’
The question is from Robert Reich, and he's not joking. Reich, who knows from his own childhood experience just how bullies behave, believes that the wealthy bullies of American right-wing politics — the Koch brothers through "Americans for Prosperity" (their own, of course) and others Reich lists in considerable detail — aim not merely at a takeover of the Republican Party (they've already apparently accomplished that) but "to take over America."
(If this is true, it would not be the first time a cabal of wealthy Americans was alleged to intend a coup. See the wiki on Smedley Butler and the Business Plot, about a supposed plot to depose FDR and install a fascist dictator, a tale which you may choose to believe or not. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I see considerable evidence that Butler told the truth.)
Whether or not Reich is right about the Koch brothers' intent to perpetrate a coup, and I think he probably is, he is right about one thing: if bullies are not confronted face-on, they will take over. It is time for President Obama to hold fast... to face down the would-be ruling class of America, and tell them NO, with no ambiguity, hedging, fudging or compromise. A wealth-driven revolution may have worked in the 18th century, but it would be an unacceptable disaster to those who follow the spirit of the American ideal today.
(If this is true, it would not be the first time a cabal of wealthy Americans was alleged to intend a coup. See the wiki on Smedley Butler and the Business Plot, about a supposed plot to depose FDR and install a fascist dictator, a tale which you may choose to believe or not. Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I see considerable evidence that Butler told the truth.)
Whether or not Reich is right about the Koch brothers' intent to perpetrate a coup, and I think he probably is, he is right about one thing: if bullies are not confronted face-on, they will take over. It is time for President Obama to hold fast... to face down the would-be ruling class of America, and tell them NO, with no ambiguity, hedging, fudging or compromise. A wealth-driven revolution may have worked in the 18th century, but it would be an unacceptable disaster to those who follow the spirit of the American ideal today.
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