The spectre of 1932: How a loss of faith in politicians and democracy could make 2012 the most frightening year in living memory

Barack Obama cuts a similarly
impotent, indecisive and
isolationist  figure.

UK Daily Mail  " And while Left-wing intellectuals were drawn to the supposedly utopian promise of the Soviet leader Josef Stalin — who turned out to be a brutal tyrant — thousands of ordinary people flocked to the banners of the British Union of Fascists, founded in the autumn of 1932 by the former Labour maverick Sir Oswald Mosley."....


"Today, American voters looking for alternatives are confronted only with a bizarre gaggle of has-beens, inadequates and weirdos, otherwise known as the Republican presidential field. And to anybody who cares about the future of the Western world, the prospect of President Ron Paul or President Newt Gingrich is frankly spine-chilling."....

"The lesson of history is that tough times often reward the desperate and dangerous, from angry demagogues to anarchists and nationalists, from seething mobs to expansionist empires.

Our world is poised on the edge of perhaps the most important 12 months for more than half a century. If our leaders provide the right leadership, then we may, perhaps, muddle through towards slow growth and gradual recovery."

American Thinker: America's Greatness Will Defeat Obama  "The only thing standing between the United States and continued exceptionalism is the dreary delirium of Barack Obama, whose dismal socialist policies have been a spectacular disaster for the nation."....

"Four more years of this President will leave the nation miserable and divided, with high unemployment, a moribund economy and a bloated bureaucracy.  With another term, Barack Obama will continue his transformation of America into a land of perpetual trillion dollar deficits and a national debt measured in the tens of trillions of dollars.  We will be weak militarily, morally and economically.  Lesser nations, like those discussed here, would not survive 8 years of hope and change, but we will not be defeated.   

"The only thing standing between America and continued preeminence is Barack Obama.  The sooner we realize that, and rid the nation of the abomination of his presidency, the better."  "

Somehow I feel more pessimistic than this. I see schools promoting Obama and socialism, history books convicting this nation and its past, TV programs almost universally ridiculing Republicans and conservatives (There are some differences, you know). Add to that the childish adoration of a celebrity president who is inept and naive as a statesman and is an economic ignoramus; a socialistic demagogue who understands little about the virtues of capitalism.

Obama and his policies may be supported by a minority, but this minority is that segment of society which is disposed to burn cities and shut down all rebutting of their ideas. These are the people who disrupt all conservative speakers on campus and ridicule any non-liberal ideas; they are in our faces at every switch of TV channels.

Center-right electorate? I doubt it, but truly hope so, but cannot see how that can still be. TD

US Communist Leader: ‘Progressive Change Is Closer than We Think’  "Tyner draws clear right/left battle lines and the communist’s commitment to Party ‘friend’ President Barack Obama and to the Democratic Party cause"....

"Tyner then goes onto outline the Communist Party’s commitment to Democratic Party victories over several decades...."