here's an amazing piece by the amazing matt taibbi. he thinks the republicans are moving the country toward civil war because of their refusal to compromise. and listen to their polarizing rhetoric!! well taibbi finds it hard to compromise with "an apocalytic cult" that is like "one of the authoritarian movements from early 20th century European history": fascists, in short. (you might want to think about how many of the fascist parties were intent on shrinking the government.) "the GOP party mainstream had sunk to the level of terrorism," he writes, "holding our economic system hostage in exchange for political concessions. This was a form of violence." surely, taibbi's observations, if true, richly justify a series of assassinations, for example, in order to prevent a civil war in which the fascist/terrorist/hostage-taking eric cantor becomes an american fuhrer.
this current crew of Republicans shook canisters of kerosene over the entire American population and threatened to light a match if it didn't get what it wanted.
As Lofgren notes, this was insurrectionary, revolutionary behavior. Only the massive scale of the gambit prevented it from being easily identified as terrorism and criminal blackmail.
i want you to keep in mind that the congress is charged by the constitution with federal appropriations, and that all the insurrectionary violence, criminal blackmail, genocidal pyromania, and high treason of the republicans amounted to refusing to raise the debt ceiling beyond $14 trillion, except under certain conditions: that is, the way the fascist-terrorist-apocalyptic cultists poured kerosene on the american people was by doing what they were called upon to do as legislators, and voting in a way that taibbi disapproves of. indeed, the insurrectionary fascist treasonous terrorist violence consists of shrinking the rate of growth in federal spending, which tells you what taibbi thinks the american government is: a god to whom all things are due. the problem isn't terrorism; it's heresy: like any cultist, taibbi hates everyone who's in the other cult.
it will go hard for matt taibbi if the realization finally dawns: he is what he hates: an authoritarian demagogue whose rhetoric is meant to incite violence and is hysterically disconnected from reality. during the civil war, i'll be the guy on the other side, gazing with a dead stare into matt taibbi's eyes.
