Events Overtake US

Many commentators on the right are pointing out the failings of our political class in general and Obama's excesses in particular. Glenn Beck has issued a signal warning of deep leftist leanings and even Marxist ties of members of the Obama administration itself. Some might suggest a creeping paranoia among those sounding the alarm on the right. Their reports are not "out there", but I fear they are excessively moderate and that the Malkins, Levins, and Becks of the world are naive enough to expect some sort of normal American democratic process. Stalin famously said, "it was not who votes that matters but who counts the votes." The contested outcome of the Franken Senatorial election in Minnesota, reflects that even in a state with a Republican governor, sufficient manipulation may take place to cloud or change the outcome. ACORN is now generously funded, even receiving Federal money from the stimulus package with its full panoply of dirty tricks-dead people, made-up people, aliens without suffrage, and felons all casting ballots and sometimes multiple ballots for Democrats who would otherwise be defeated in 2010 and subsequent elections. Obama can tell wavering Democrats that they have nothing to worry about, that their remaining in office is in the bag. And this presumes that there even are elections. A terrorist event, a manufactured provocation like the Reichstag fire, may allow emergency rule and or martial law to be declared. I am not confident that we will ever again routinely have elections in this country and I do not know why the radio rightists presume we will get a vote either. Do they not spend many broadcast hours every day telling us just how bad the people that surround Obama actually are?