Quote Originally Posted by Puckstop31 View Post

History teaches us that left wing idealouges LOVE a good crisis. Because like good ole Rahm Emaunuel said, "it lets us do things that we normally would not be able to do." America's first fascist "dictator", Woodrow Wilson, got the real war he needed. Did you know that American Citizens were arrested and jailed for simply SPEAKING out against his policies?

Fast forward to today. Modern "nanny state" liberalism can't use hawkish things to get them what they want, as it makes them look to much like what they really are... So they invent or use a "moral equivilant of war". George Bush did it.... Barack Obama is doing it now as well, this article says it all.

Look, I know most of you would disagree with me if I told you the sky was blue. So don't take my word for it. Just pick up a book or two about Woodrow Wilson and the American of the 1910-1919 era. It really did happen then.... And it can happen again. Or read about the depression of 1920. It was WAY worse, for a short time, than the crash of 29. Know why it was short? Because government did NOTHING and let the market fix itself. Know why the GREAT Depression was GREAT? Because government tried to "fix" it.

Those that do not know their history are doomed to repeat it.
I do agree with you that those in power like nothing more than a bogeyman to scare the population into submission. However, it most certainly is not one-sided. I think the Right Wing Idealogues crave it just as much as the Left. Otherwise W would not have been able to get away with all he did the past 8 years.

Did you rant against him the way you are against Obama?