Who else feels like the pieces of a horrible and frightening puzzle are falling into place nicely?

[LeftyFingerPop]

[Jamastiene]

1. *raises hand and says, "ME!"*

I do. It's all such a nightmare that I'm beginning to question whether I've died and gone to hell or not.

[LeftyFingerPop]

4. I lost sleep over this last night...and probably will tonight...

General feeling of fear...trying to decide how and when to adjust my IRA...fear for my health...this is not good.

[K Gardner]

16. My best friend and I are both sleepless, have been for three days. Although, it's somewhat

comforting to know that when you break out in a cold sweat at 3 a.m. because you think you're living in V for Vendetta, ya got somebody to call.

[csziggy]

2. I'm starting to feel as though we are in the prequel to V for Vendetta

And November the 5th was not just the end but the beginning....

[bdamomma]

11. where are our masks?

[csziggy]

17. Those don't arrive until part way through the third episode in the trilogy.

We're in the prequel - the lead up to the fascist regime. Then the horror of the fascists. THEN we get V for Vendetta, the masks and the destruction of the regime. It will be grim.

[readmoreoften]

26. I'm starting to feel like we're in V for Vendetta and there's no V.

[soulcore]

3. I concur.

The bailout fiasco, the Palin debacle, the "suspension" of McCain's campaign and the assignment of a 1000's strong Army division to the "Homeland" have me wary to say the least.

[BlueIdaho]

8. Link Please

Please provide a link to the actual announcement of this deployment - not a blog saying it was in Army times - a link to an actual source.

[AlCzervik]

5. nausea is the new norm for me and i'm so stressed out, like i can feel my nerves

pinging. Every morning i go get my newspapers on the front porch and the first thing i see is my neighbor's McCain sign, it's all i can do to keep myself from screaming.

[graywarrior]

7. When I phone bank and I get a McCain supporter I want to tear into them

I can't. But I want to. So f'n bad.

[LeftyFingerPop]

12. I'm actually starting to wonder when the riots are going to start. n/t

[graywarrior]

14. It has to be near at hand

People are becoming more and more pissed. $7000 per person my ass. They take 33% of our paychecks now. What will it be in the near future?

[LeftyFingerPop]

15. Check this out...

I have some holdings in an IRA. Not a hell of a lot, BUT IT IS MY ENTIRE LIFE SAVINGS.

I want that money OUT OF THERE.

I want it in my grubby little hands so I can buy gold, silver, and food.

I am only 50 years old, so I can't get it without a 10% penalty PLUS the taxes.

Those horrible horrible motherfuckers.

[LeftyFingerPop]

9. I know how you feel...

General feeling of unrest.

We are all smart people...I think we should trust our intuition.

I am normally not a tin-foiler...but Jesus Christ!

[bdamomma]

13. I am thinking if it ever comes to a confrontation/revolution

so be it.

[readmoreoften]

28. What can people do if there is no actual democratic process? This is the question.

I see so many posts about what people 'believe in'. Oddly in the 20th century the Anarchists, Bolsheviks, Trots, and Social Democrats all 'believed' in the same thing: an egalitarian society free of imperialist sociopathy, where creative people could create things without being slaves. The real place where they differed was "how to get there" and "how to get rid of the fascists/capitalists." Could they be bargained with? Would there need to be a dictatorial coup to make sure the fascists didn't rise up again and subvert the system for their personal gain? What should be done with the petit bourgeois who benefit from collaborating with them? The wealthy art collectors and Ford Foundation liberals? Can they be reasoned with? Can they be brought to do the right thing through education? Must social organization be totally disrupted and then people scatter and go off on their own to farm/build small collectives, etc? (Early anarchists) Or should generic humanity work together to ensure that the wealthy will not reorganize and take over the world again?

Today we really equate the goal of a belief system with the outcome of its application in the 20th century. For example: communists want a bleak totalitarian state and to suppress creativity. This is untrue. The goal of communism is to take over the means of production by force, form an egalitarian society, and THEN watch as the state withers away. What we often call socialists are progressive social democrats: those who believe that the state will wither away or become minimized WITHOUT revolution as reforms are made and humanity is enlightened. This is what many of us are. Many of us define our politics based on the idea that revolution is unrealistic and silly and violence or force cannot solve problems. This is certainly my ideal.

But the problem is this: the capitalists are not getting better. They are getting worse. They are less enlightened. They are more brutal and they have more technological control than 100-200 years ago. The world is becoming more violent and social democracy isn't working.

Here are my questions:

Are we really a 'pluralist democracy with diverse opinions' or are we a one party capitalist authoritarian state?
How can we get all these reforms? "What we need to do is bring back the fairness doctrine. What we need to do is demand single payer health care. Etc." How do we "do" these things? What does it mean to "demand"?

How do you melt a fascist's heart? How do you get him or her to see reason? Where is this power?

[ellaydubya]

6. I don't want to, but I do,,,,,

All of this stuff just blows me away- I feel like I am ready a political fictional novel (that I love!)BUT this is real and something nobody knows how to deal with- that is scary. I sure did not feel more secure listening to our Commander-in-Chief tonight- I wonder how this will play across the country. I thought it was quite inflammatory. I really did a double-take while listening because his message was scaring me- I can't even imagine what it was doing to others!?!?!?!??! Seriously!!! Your thoughts????

[RagAss]

10. Everybody, chill the hell out !

[readmoreoften]

24. If only. I loved Don Knotts as a kid. Now I know why. (ps I love your sigline)

[RagAss]

29. Thanks !

[Liberal_in_LA]

18. talk radio was giving out survival tips (weapons, supply of food, etc.) & only half kidding.

[nc4bo]

19. .

:tinfoilhat:

[chill_wind]

20. Yes. We've been rolled by a Wall Street Exec masquerading as the Secretary of the Treasury.

(Pete DeFazio, loosely paraphrasing)

[PufPuf23]

21. Living in a Philip Dick novel gone bad nt

[KathieG]

22. Kinda...everything is just so surreal. I honestly don't know what to make of it...

I am confused, angry, excited, scared, skeptical, tired and hopeful all rolled into one. :crazy:

[Leopolds Ghost]

23. When half of the Dems + leadership (and a majority of Dem voters) enacted and made FISA a Dem cause

I tuned out of politics, which is why I rarely read or post on here anymore.

[readmoreoften]

25. It's even scarier that we're all feeling it. We don't even know what it is, but it's there.

I've been waiting for the boot to fall for some time now. Gotta keep sanity. That's the goal.

[conspirator]

27. "The Matrix is everywhere, it is all around us, even now in this very room.

You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth."

"What truth?"

"That you are a slave, Neo"

[Greyhound]

30. To paraphrase Hannibal Smith, "they love it when a plan comes together". n/t