Reply #56: I would like to believe you are correct, and I certainly don't think I have the answers

[Time for change]

However, these kinds of things have happened throughout history, and I don't see anything about the current United States of America that would make them immune. If anything, it seems to me that the evidence points in the other direction. Time after time the Bush administration goes one step further in abolishing our Constitution, and there is no universal outrage expressed about it. Outrage on DU, sure. And some other places.

But most Americans are somewhat apathetic about this. They have been raised to believe, and they have been conditioned by our corporate media to believe, that "it can't happen here". And that is perhaps one of the best reasons to believe, IMO, that it CAN happen here.