Should Alito be confirmed?

[mburbank]

Not a chance. Although I mostly agree with everything you've said, I still believe in banding together to protect ourselves as a group from ourselves. Why? Because the alternative leads rapidly to my being killed and eaten.


I'm more puzzled and frigthened by how much more it takes to wake the culture up than it used to. The worm turned on Mccarthy, it turned on Vietnam... is the current gang so much better, or is the nation so much more fat and complacent?

I'm highly cyncial about anyone with a taste for power. But here's what I'm saying, and I'll keep saying it. This bunch has expanded the nevelope dramtically. way more than anhthing I've seen in my liftetime. I've never seen a president I liked, and I've seen a few I outright hated, but I never thought before 'here's a gang who's intention is to topple the country as we know it.' That might have been a biproduct of other Presidents, but I never saw it as the singular intention. I never imagined Bush I or Reagan or even Nixon wpuld establish a facist state if they could. I feel like these guys haven't tried yet because they don't think we're in the proper position for it to succeed. So in the meantime they keep seeing just how much they can push in that direction, waiting for the next big terrorist attack or bird flu or whatever other excuse they can use like they did 9/11 to solidify their power and make it permanent. Of course they will fail, there are no thousand year reichs. But man, fuck these bastards and fuck everyone who doesn't see them for the lying, coniving, sould dead bastards they are.