Reply #21: It is about disaster capitalism...

[Luminous Animal]

I am reading Chomsky lectures from 10-20 years ago and he pretty much had it pegged...

Quote from Understanding Power.

"But the point is, if things ever come to a crunch in the United States, this massive part of the population ( Fundamentalist Christians ) - I think it's something like a third of the adult population by now - could be the basis for some kind of a fascist movement, readily. For example, if the country sinks deeply into a recession, a depoliticized population could very easily be mobilized into thinking that it's somebody else's fault: "Why are our lives collapsing? There have to bad guys out there doing something for things to be going so badly" - and the bad guys can be Jews, or homosexuals, or blacks, or Communists, whatever you pick. If you can whip people into irrational frenzies like that, they can be extremely dangerous: that's what 1930's fascism came from, and something like that could very easily happen here.

We are witnessing the whipping up of irrational fear and if you don't get off your fucking ass and counteract it, you and your children and children's children will suffer for it.

By the way, this part of the OP is bullshit... "So sit back, enjoy the show, build up a loving life and relationships that you have the power to affect... that is the only way for us to overcome what we are seeing and will continue to see for some time."

This show is not enjoyable and there has never been, in the course of human history, a progressive cause that has been advanced by sitting back and enjoying the show of blind rage.