Well, hopefully this election at least proves to everyone that it's not

[Nicky Scarfo]

just Bush, Cheney and a cabal of politicos and corporate execs to blame for the state of the nation. It's not Nader, and it's not that Kerry wasn't the right candidate. It's that we are facing a much bigger problem here. Our nation is on a long march towards fascism. Sorry, but we are living in a very bad historical period. The collapse of the Soviet Union (leaving the US as the only undisputed imperial power), the 9/11 attacks, and 30 years of effective organizing by the corporate world and the cultural right-wingers, have created objective historical conditions that are making the right-wing a cultural and political juggernaut in this country.

It's time to accept this fact and stop looking for people to blame. Until we do, we cannot make progress. The progressive forces need to take a step back, evaluate the situation and engage in a massive reorganization of priorities and institutions. It will likely mean more losses in the short-term, but we are clearly going to suffer those anyways. We need a long-term strategy that accepts the fact we will suffer more losses than victories in the coming years, and we need to dump our institutional misleaders in the DNC and organized labor. We have to prepare ourselves for the long-war and quit treating every election as if it's the end of the world, otherwise we will gain nothing but disappointment.

[ladjf]

1. Good post.

[ClassWarrior]

2. True dat.

[Nicky Scarfo]

3. self-serving reality check kick

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. effective organizing by the corporate world and the cultural right-wingers

This article found in the darndest place bears out what you are saying... good job.

http://www.antipasministries.com/oldnews/vol5no2.html
The Corporate / Pentagon / CIA / Missionary Archipelago
December 5, 1998
Written By S.R. Shearer
Much of the information for this article came from Noam Chomsky's book, The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism and Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett's book, Thy Will Be Done.
"We are only in the very dawn of COMMERCE, and we owe that dawn, with all its promise to the channels opened up by CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES ... The effect of the missionary enterprise of the English speaking people will be to bring them the ... CONQUEST OF THE WORLD."
- Rev. Frederick Gates,
Baptist Minister
Letter to John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
April 17, 1905

[Nicky Scarfo]

6. Haven't seen that article, but I did see that website once. They're a

strange group. They have the apocalyptic rhetoric of evangelical Christians, but they're anti-capitalist left-wingers. Kind of a kooky, cultish, end-of-the-world Protestant version of Catholic liberation theology. That being said, they do have some excellent articles about the organizational nexus of Christian Right groups, corporate interests, and political conservatives.

[ramapo]

5. 25+ years in the making

That's how long since Reagan was elected, the "revolution"...

There will need to be a new generation of leadership just to get started