So, today in 2008, you have tens of millions of deceived and unsophisticated Americans who are liberals and don’t know it, and who are decrying liberalism and chanting for a society free of liberalism. They themselves are liberal just for believing, unlike the Neocons, in freedom, equality and democracy. They have no grasp of the fact that the liberal-free state that they champion resembles Gitmo or the Tower of London, where freedom and rights are nonexistent. And they cannot at this time be made to see otherwise by any means known to me. They are programmed to distrust us self-avowed liberals however cogent our arguments, and I’m afraid that the corporatists have already succeeded in their quest to capture our government. They could drop the charade tomorrow and just declare martial law, which would also be acceptable to the deceived for a time. But a brutal and oppressive regime a la the Nazis would finally lead to resistance even from the ditto head contingent. None of that is necessary. A gradual transformation and consolidation of the remainder of our government functions and economy can be effected stealthily allowing these plutocratic corporatists to go about their business with a minimum of resistance, police or prisons.
Just as a final thought, self-described conservative Americans, also known as the classical, laissez-faire liberals are just beginning to realize that there is something very wrong with the Republican Party. Like we liberals who have mostly disavowed the Democratic Party, they are beginning to distance themselves from the Republicans. This was manifest as an unusually robust Ron Paul candidacy, the man who for many on the right served the same charismatic, even messianic role for conservatives that the Obama candidacy has thus far provided for the left. As a result, the classical liberals, formerly self-described Republicans, are beginning to call themselves Libertarians in order to distinguish and distance themselves from the Bush type of politicians and operatives, a change which will further muddy the waters of political nomenclature.
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