Another week as usual in the Democratic Underground fever swamps:

Let’s start with the theory that Right Wing Christians are staging a “coup”

Coups typically use the power of the existing government for its own takeover.
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OK, now let's take a look at what's happening, in context:

1) Control of some active portion of the military:
.....Recent reports of harassment of non-christians in Air Force Academy
.....Growth of Christian Militia groups
.....Evangelical officers moved into positions of authority.
2) Infiltration of a small but critical segment of the state apparatus
.....Slow takeover of all three branches of government.
.....Placement of true-believers in most government agencies.
.....Purges of possibly disloyal people from those same agencies.
.....Slow takeover of courts with sympathetic judges.
3) Means of communication
.....Fox News (enough said)
.....Mainstream News sources being pushed, strongarmed or bought.
.....Control of means of dissemination by small group of corporations.
4) Physical infrastructure, such as streets and power plants
.....Homeland Security, "terrorist threats" can prompt takeover of control.

Later on in the same thread (it is rich with these but I will stick with only two) :

The final public takeover will not, I think, be undertaken until they are sure that there is no possibility that it can be effectively fought, or if they see the possibility that they might be exposed and possibly beaten. If a coup is indeed being planned, and all this is not just a confluence of a number of different sources who's actions, just coincidentally, are moving towards the same final outcome, then slow and steady has been working for them so far.

A thread postulating yet again that Bush was behind the 9/11 attacks :

Connect these first dots. PNAC needs a "Pearl Harbor-type" event to occur to invade Iraq.

Step Two:

Look at the ignored warnings that an impending attack on the United States BY Al Qaeda AND Osama Bin Laden.

Of course they still can’t get over losing the last election…

Your "moral values" were all bullshit- There never was anybody who won the election.

There is no "56 million americans greatly enlightened."

This entire election was a sham, produced by fraud and supression alone.

Same thread Bush = Hitler :

Bush is as moral as Hitler was.

I was rather encouraged by this sane thread, which actually dared to criticize the Palestinians for once:

First, outlaw terrorist groups and ARREST them.

2nd, tell their people that terrorists are destroying their society.

3rd, end the anti-israel/anti-semitic incitement on PA tv and radio.

4th,negotiate with israel honestly.

That would be a good start to help themselves FIRST.

Bravo.

Maybe there is a shred of hope left for the Democratic party? Or am I reading too much into one thread?