Stuff like this scares me, but not for the reason you think.
“The way I think the country’s going, I’m wondering whether or not we’re gonna have a presidential election in 2012,” one gentleman told an interviewer. “I know there’s some backroom talk of martial law.”
Could Palin beat Obama in 2012?, he was asked.
“Well,” he said, “he’s naturalizing a lot of illegal aliens … they’re saying she’s not gonna have the votes when you throw those numbers in.”
“There won’t be enough white votes on one side to get a candidate through?” the interviewer asked.
“No way,” he said.
(via Judith Warner)
Is this just the conservative version of what we were saying about Bush? We didn’t fear martial law and naturalized immigrants so much as stuffing ballot boxes and suppressed voter turnout, but isn’t it rather the same thing?
I can go on about why our fears about the Bush administration overturning our system of government weren’t irrational: Bush v. Gore, the PATRIOT act and illegal wiretapping, torture—actual torture, we did that!, can you believe it?—, the unitary executive theory, and on and on and on. But there is a level where I wonder if we aren’t all just wildly crazy.
