Allen West: I've 'Heard' 80 House Democrats Are Communist Party Members

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47. According to people who believe in 'cosmic cycles' we will undergo all they did in the 1930's again.

Not a scenario any generation wants to relive again.

The right certainly wants to give it 'a life of its own' as it's worked so well before. About a third of the people in this country have minds that simply quit functioning at the word 'socialism' or 'communism,' the imprint of infamous examples are all they hear, not the theories.

People losing their jobs and homes, the rich making out like bandits, just as they did before back in 1929, because the regulations FDR put in place have been eviscerated. They've been screaming 'economic crash and we must return to the gold standard,' because they desperately want a collapse. Our world is owned by the people who profited from that crash, because it was not a failure for their way of doing business.

Many people only think of the suffering of the many from the Great Depression, but great fortunes were made by the 1% as have been made since the 1980's. Reining them in is like Hercules cleaning the Augean stables, nasty, requiring guile and thankless.

The Bush family is as involved as they were then, and on the side of the authoritarians and war profiteers, just as they were then. Fox News and hate radio are Orwellian in their use of psychology. Demagogues are being elected state after state, and running for POTUS. Nazis are patrolling in Florida and other states and we have outbreaks of violence from the right.

Adding in the attacks on the poor and disabled, and all the other '14 Signs of Fascism,' and yes, I can see it 'happening here.' We're walking a fine line, and we may not win. We're in for a radical transformation of the world, hopefully for the better. IMHO.