James Fallows goes there
Fallows is an establishment figure, albeit a liberal-leaning one: not a man one thinks of as a wild-eyed conspiracy-theory-prone partisan given to overheated rhetoric about the state of the nation and the world. As of today, he is calling what has been happening in the United States over the past twelve years a slow-motion coup d'etat. I wish I thought he were wrong.
The only bright side I see is that at least someone who is solidly a part of the mainstream is freaked enough to say it out loud. If others are willing to follow his lead, there's still a chance that it will do some good.
Anyway, my choice for today's must-read. I'm surprised that it hasn't already been linked everywhere I've looked.
ETA: It has been pointed out to me that he's since backed down, and retitled the second post "Five Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Radical Change." But he hasn't actually backed down on the substance of either post: the text and analysis are unchanged from the earlier version. It would be interesting to know why he felt the need to alter the headline -- whether he frightened the horses, as it were, or frightened himself, or whether it was purely that on reflection, he felt that "coup" wasn't really a technically accurate description of how the alteration of our form of government is taking place.
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The only bright side I see is that at least someone who is solidly a part of the mainstream is freaked enough to say it out loud. If others are willing to follow his lead, there's still a chance that it will do some good.
Anyway, my choice for today's must-read. I'm surprised that it hasn't already been linked everywhere I've looked.
ETA: It has been pointed out to me that he's since backed down, and retitled the second post "Five Signs the United States Is Undergoing a Radical Change." But he hasn't actually backed down on the substance of either post: the text and analysis are unchanged from the earlier version. It would be interesting to know why he felt the need to alter the headline -- whether he frightened the horses, as it were, or frightened himself, or whether it was purely that on reflection, he felt that "coup" wasn't really a technically accurate description of how the alteration of our form of government is taking place.
This entry was crossposted from Dreamwidth. Feel free to comment here or there, with openID or whatever works for you.