yup, predictable
Simple enough playbook to achieve socialist/fascist goals:
1) Proclaim that a crises exits (if one doesn't exist, invent one).
2) Manipulate and scare the mindless masses into buying into it.
3) Set up and demonize "straw men" to heroically knock down.
4) Insist that the only possible remedy is government bail-outs, programs, regulations, etc.
5) Cram the legislation through Congress ASAP (preferably without even reading it!).
6) Send the bill to future generations.
Tools required: Charismatic and Machiavellian salesman, Slavishly obedient MSM, muscle to intimidate straw men (e.g. union thugs, "community organizers", ACORN, etc.), gullible cult-like followers, timid CEO's and a cowardly opposition party.
Then just fill-in the crisis du jour and run with it! (finance, auto industry, health care, global warming/energy, etc.).
This playbook is not new. Thomas Sowell wrote extensively about it in "The Vision of the Annointed" about 20 years ago...
it was the same during the Clinton admin. "CRISIS A WEEK"...I remember Hillary on with Katie one morning whispering..."there's a "silent" crisis in America"...the "silent" crisis at the time was a lack of free government provided and run day care....it was going to bankrupt the nation..or something...
hey, here's an idea..this administration should get one or more of the big three networks to move their news division right into the White House where they could take directions from Rahm and the "O" and promote their agenda in prime time for free with no opposing views...this would be the perfect way to fully take advantage of an adoring and obedient mainstream media...but...I doubt that even the shills at the big networks would prostitute themselves to that degree...probably never happen....
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