Today's Warm and Fuzzy Thought

So, Girlzoot calls me tonight and asks me what I thought of the speech. My first thought was "What speech?" then I remembered that our sovereign leader delivered his State of the Union speech today. I must confess I didn’t see or hear his speech. Though I don’t really think I had to. Without so much as reading a transcript or hearing any sound bites from the speech I was able to guess what he talked about. Well, all but one thing.

I didn’t need to sit through who knows how long of a speech for him to tell me what his plan is to destroy our Nation. I really try to avoid using overstated terms, but I truly believe that unless he is stopped, that is precisely what will happen. Between the voting irregularities (Ohio in 2004, Florida in 2000), expansion of corporate roles in our day-to-day government (private military fighting in Iraq), privatization of everything from education to social security, loss of individual rights (Patriot Act), acts of unprovoked aggression (war in Iraq) and increase in religious fervor in our nations leaders, we are rapidly approaching despotism if not full on fascism.

What scares me most is that we as a citizenry will just stand aside and let it happen. Remember, even Hitler was elected to his office.

So let me leave you with two quotes from another infamous leader Bernito Mussolini and you make up your own mind:

“Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

“Let us have a dagger between our teeth, a bomb in our hands, and infinite scorn in our hearts.”