Reply #36: We all escape by flying pig.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

The reality is that this kind of speculation is pure tinfoil, and shouldn't be taken seriously.

Bad as he is, Bush is not going to try and declare martial law. In answer to your "what would happen if", I imagine that the first things that would happen if he were to be possessed by aliens or similar and try to do so would include the generals refusing to obey the order, and Congress and the Senate rushing through legislation to replace him as president. Bush knows that full well, and short of being possessed by aliens he isn't going to do so.

Not to mention the fact that it is possible to massively exaggerate the extent to which even Bush is unprincipled. Just because there are things that he shouldn't do that he does, doesn't mean that there aren't things he doesn't do. Failure to recognise this is one of the primary weaknesses of DU, I think.

To try and oppose someone effectively, it is necessary first to understand them. If the left in America didn't indulge in this kind of ridiculous exaggeration it would be able to achieve far more.