Looking ahead

[prog]

McCain has lost control of his monster. This was evident a few days ago as he found himself having to correct snopesworthy concerns of audience members at a rally, but stumblingly - at one point uttering a soundbite that seemed to backhandedly endorse an Obama presidency. Yikes.

Here is my biggest fear: If the last five years of US foreign relations have planted the seeds for a new generation of bin Ladens to sprout out yonder, then the last five months of let the hate flow through you rhetoric from the desperate Right are gonna stir up a new batch of homegrown McVeighs. Yum yum.

Is there anything that the rest of us can do about this latter business, other than hoping that the DHS and the Secret Service know what they're doing?

Comments

[radtea.livejournal.com]

I'm almost afraid to hope right now. Obama looks like a near-certainty, with a genuine possibility of a landslide, and the right-wing nutjobs don't like to lose. There are two things they have left: Diebold, and assassination.

I wouldn't put it past them to try both, in that order. On that basis, the hate-mongering of recent weeks is theatre to set up deniability when they murder the president-elect. It will let them claim that some redneck loser did it, rather than an assassin in their pay (whoever, precisely, "they" are.)

[prog.livejournal.com]

I cannot seriously foresee conspiracies like this happening. Unless the polls somehow show the race tightening to a dead heat (as in 2000 / 2004) within the next three weeks, any "Diebold gambit" would never work.

And I can't think of any scenarios where members of Party A would really gain anything from killing anyone in Party B, outside of a full-blown military coup or something. I'm definitely more afraid of honest-to-god lone nuts, whose chain-letter-stoked fantasies are all being validated by Palin and her ilk. Historically, they've shot our presidents and blown up our buildings for less.