Lurching Toward Theocracy - Berkowiyz, Dissident Voice

[RBHam]

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr05/Berkowitz0401.htm

excerpt:
“This separation of government from people, this widening of the gap, took place so gradually and so insensibly, each step disguised (perhaps not even intentionally) as a temporary emergency measure or associated with true patriotic allegiance or with real social purposes. And all the crises and reforms (real reforms, too) so occupied the people that they did not see the slow motion underneath, of the whole process of government growing remoter and remoter. ...

“To live in this process is absolutely not to be able to notice it... unless one has a much greater degree of political awareness, acuity, than most of us had ever had occasion to develop. Each step was so small, so inconsequential, so well explained or, on occasion, ‘regretted,’ that, unless one were detached from the whole process from the beginning, unless one understood what the whole thing was in principle, what all these ‘little measures’ that no ‘patriotic Germans’ could resent must some day lead to, one no more saw it developing from day to day than a farmer in his field sees the corn growing. One day it is over his head.

“In this conversation,” Thom Hartmann wrote, “Mayer's friend suggests that he wasn't making an excuse for not resisting the rise of fascism, but simply pointing out an undisputable reality. This, he suggests, is how fascism will always take over a nation.

“Pastor Niemoller spoke for the thousands and thousands of men like me when he spoke (too modestly of himself) and said that, when the Nazis attacked the Communists, he was a little uneasy, but, after all, he was not a Communist, and so he did nothing: and then they attacked the Socialists, and he was a little uneasier, but, still, he was not a Socialist, and he did nothing; and then the schools, the press, the Jews, and so on, and he was always uneasier, but still he did nothing. And then they attacked the Church, and he was a Churchman, and he did something -- but then it was too late.”

[LeftyDarthBrodie]

1. Good article

I hope that the lesson the Schiavo case will teach the American people is that the so called "moral voters" who supposedly won the election for geedubya are really a fanatical, pro-theocracy bunch no better than the Taliban.

As the polls showed it was even a minority of Evangelicals who wanted to do anything to keep Terri alive. Maybe next year the Democrats will bring this up as a way of showing that the Christofascists running the Republican party do not have the countries best interest in mind. And in the end Santorum will lose.

I can dream, can't I?