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migo,

thanks for your kind words and thoughts (and sorry I hadn't replied until now)

if only there weren't so much outrageous abuse of power (in fact, more than ever) demanding focus -- and still getting far too little

we're already years deep into the first phase of overt fascism -- purely fascist absolute executive power has been asserted ('unitary executive', signing statements, 'Ah'm the Decider' [i.e., 'Dictator'], etc), and that purely fascist absolute power has already been and increasingly is being exercised, and exercised brazenly (more coming to light every day)

with the election results, there was a first real resistance from the governed -- aimed mostly at Iraq and a tsunami of Repub corruption, but a first real resistance none the less

the Dem Congress thus elected will strengthen the institutional resistance to this first-phase overt fascism, and may even attempt to intervene to remove dubya and his veep from office -- and then there are the '08 elections

so by definition we now enter the critical second phase of overt fascism -- that of the consolidation, i.e. ruthless enforcement, of such absolute power, or of instead the failure of such consolidation

'interesting times', indeed