I’d like to respond briefly to comments to my TV Tonight post.

I’m just saying that I suspect the election was rigged, stolen, hacked. Can’t prove it. People are working on that.

I should point out that I took one poli sci course in the early 80s, then law school later. I don’t know much about political science, but I think:

Bush is not a conservative. Conservativism involves fiscal restraint, a respect for traditional institutions, a tendency to avoid abrupt social change. Bush is abruptly yanking half the country yard to the right, causing a great division. He has no respect for individual civil liberties – Patriot Act – and he feels no urge to answer to us for his screwups. He’s a neo-conservative fascist:

Fascism:

1 : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.

2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

I can take small comfort in the fact that social change is usually like a pendulum, swinging back and forth, and spending most of its time between its extremes. But sometimes, it’s like a big rubber band. It snaps – and there’s a revolution. Let’s hope we’re not facing anything like that. But I strongly fear that the bushies are going to swing too far, too fast, and when the pendulum swings back, step aside.

The anonymous commenter may also wish to note that I have another, more politcial blog, which he or she might find also interesting. It’s Burning Daylight. And please enter a name when commenting; make one up, I don’t care.