HockeyDad wrote:The first step will be to crush corporations, the rich and upper class. Then it will spill over into the middle class. The Democrats are the only party that can lead that effort.
The problem is they can't cut spending for entitlements, can't squeeze the rich and upper class enough to cover the gaps, and corporations just eliminate jobs and close down. At that point the Democrats fail and give rise to a new 3rd party. History tends to point towards that party being totalitarian in nature.
My take is, the Democrats will be able to spin themselves out of any economic predicament. Hell, they pretty much do that already. When the economic crash happens (or more accurately, when it continues to spiral irreversibly downward to the unavoidable crash), the Republicans will be convincingly blamed no matter how transparently false the 'facts' are, and end up politically marginalized. Or in FEMA camps. At that point the Democrats will have survived by morphing into the totalitarian party in charge.
We agree that the end game could conceivably be a police state run by the surviving totalitarian political machine. We just differ in the details of who all will be running the reeducation camps, and who all will be digging the latrines.