I re-watched "V for Vendetta" the other night, and Gingrich's remarks struck me as a line from the movie, when Sutler, the evil chancellor, screams,
"I want everyone to remember why they need us!" Gingrich hedges with one word---"almost"---but heads down the slippery slope when he says we should
think about it (think about it, think about it). The phrase "it's
almost like they should" really becomes "it's
very possible they should" let an attack go through.
If allowing an attack to "get through," with the deaths of innocent people---for "the psychology" of it--- is deemed okay, then all the better to control it. Given Gingrich's past behavior, I can see him slipping down this slope, with plenty of encouragement from the "dark players" who are bound to swarm any Gingrich administration.
Simulist wrote:even if the "preferred" candidate becomes president — and in the increasingly unlikely event that he actually tries to do something constructive as president — the people who really run things in this… um, "democracy" will simply kill him if he gets in their way too much.
I wonder if Gingrich knows this. It brings up another aspect of the corruption and brutalization of politics:
"C'mon, everybody's doing it!" "This is the way things work. Make the best of it. Don't stick your neck out, if you know what I mean."
Simulist wrote:until the present system is demolished, nothing will ever really be done about it, and few will even care.
Bringing me back to "V"...(if I read the movie correctly) the 'fancy karate moves' helped, but the end of the dictatorship came mainly from 200,000 people facing down the "authorities" in a public square.
Elihu wrote:you forgot to put "won" in quotations.
Do you mean voting machine fraud? I doubt they'll need it; Gingrich might be a supply-sider's wet dream, but Obama's been the best Republican president this country's had in years.