…on the ’04 elections and the extreme left. If Bush=Hitler in ’04, what will Bush equal if he’s back for a second term?<\/p>\n
….what about those people who already regard the Democrats as sell-outs and phonies, bought-and-paid-for corporate whores? That’s a subset, the ranting fringe. But you have to wonder what they’ll do if Bush wins They already seem to regard America as a lost cause; they see the fascist caul draped over the land, just as the demented home-grown terrorists of the 60s and 70s saw Amerikkka as irredeemably evil, a thing that had to be killed for The People to live. Most of the ranting fringe – 99.5% – will whine and seethe in the message boards of the Internet, but I wouldn’t be surprised if domestic leftist terrorism made a comeback this decade. It only takes a few, after all. And it only takes a few sympathizers here and there to shield them.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sometimes I look at pictures from the ‘fifties and early ‘sixties — the stiff formal fashions and skinny neckties, the earnest ads, the delight in new techology — and I think about the later ‘sixties and early ‘seventies, with the worship of the youth culture, the hippie culture, the riots, and I wonder if, for ordinary people, if it didn’t feel sometimes like the world wasn’t coming to an end.
\nI tend to take the threat of terrorism somewhat personally. Maybe it’s from the September 11th attacks — I vividly remember the panic of that day, how I had no idea where my husband was, how I couldn’t place a phone call because the lines were jammed. We didn’t know any of the victims of the attacks, but we have friends who lost friends. Maybe it’s from the days of the D.C. sniper — most of the shootings took place in neighborhoods where I live and shop. The last shooting was only a mile or two from my house. I think about the Palestinian suicide bombers and how they prey on people going about their business — people shopping, having coffee, dining out, going to work, going to school. I think about the Madrid bombing, and how the victims were commuters, just going about their business.
\nWill I be be the one glued to the radio, waiting by the phone, waiting for news of survivors of the attack on the D.C. Metro?
\nOr will it be my husband? Will I go run some little errand — maybe going to Michael’s for some food coloring or something trivial like that — and never come home again? Will he be the one dialing the cell phone number again and again and again, getting no response, taking hours to get home because of the traffic and the emergency vehicles and the detours, hoping for some good news?
\nIt’s bad enough that I can see this happening because some Al Quaida operatives have found some holes in the net. But to think about it being the work of a domestic terrorist — Oklahoma City over and over again….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"…on the ’04 elections and the extreme left. If Bush=Hitler in ’04, what will Bush equal if he’s back for a second term? ….what about those people who already regard the Democrats as sell-outs and phonies, bought-and-paid-for corporate whores? That’s a subset, the ranting fringe. But you have to wonder what they’ll do if Bush… Continue reading Sobering thought from Lileks today<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}