"I still think it's a meme." It's a book. With a Beck program, the audience is partly influenced by emotion. Much harder in a book.
"Ultimately it's probably the corporations behind it -- Big Money -- like a twisted version of the 'twilight bark'." Of course they are. They want to make money by selling books. Or maybe you mean those nefarious mega-corps that control the government. Then all I could say is they play both sides of center very well. Check this out: Insurance firms infuse GOP with big doses of cash<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-1004-health-insurance-politics20101004,0,6752608.story> Money Quote: Faced with wide-ranging new requirements in the health care law, the insurance industry is pouring money into Republican campaign coffers in hopes of scaling back regulations while preserving the mandate that Americans buy coverage. They got what they wanted from the Democrats. Time to start working the Republicans "Makes sense. Sci-fi has a lot of 'futures' controlled by corps....And crazy military governments, I guess." They do. It's probably what we are heading for. By the way, the fusion of government and big business is Fascism. "Bush took us a lot closer to a crazy militaristic government than Obama has, but the folks complaining now weren't then, when that was the right time, compared to now." On Bush, how so? In what sense? On Obama, remember this quote: "We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded." Fortunately, this has come to naught. Give him a second term and we'll see what happens. Can you remember other countries that had civilian paramilitary organizations? Obviously, there was the Hitler Youth. Look up the CCC sometime. Then there's the American Legion<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Legion>(obviously, this organization has changed a lot over the years): "The American Legion is fighting every element that threatens our democratic government Soviets, anarchists, I.W.W.s, revolutionary socialists and every other 'red.'" "Should the day ever come when they menace the freedom of our representative government, the Legion would not hesitate to take things into its own hands to fight the "reds" as the Fascisti of Italy fought them." "Do not forget that the Fascisti are to Italy what the American Legion is to the United States. And that Mussolini, the new premier, was the commander of the Legion the ex-servicemen of Italy.... The Legion is not in politics.... But there is plenty of politics in the Legion potential power, I mean." The AL was going to be the force behind the "Business Plot<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot>", a coup attempt that failed (Years ago, I heard Oliver Stone was going to make a movie about this; must have dropped the idea). Any way, FDR used the AL to spy on American citizens and big business used them as strike breakers. J - Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November. Having ones opponent rebut charges of racism is far better than discussing joblessness. - Mary Frances Be ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328549 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
