Approaching no return

Rick Santorum reckessly accuses the Democrats being Nazis, ""the equivalent of Adolf Hitler in 1942 saying, 'I'm in Paris, how dare you invade me, how dare you bomb my city!'", in the debate over the so-called "nuclear option". Far more blatent a reference than I can remember being used by anyone, surely in the Congress, on either side .

Many get worked up when the alusion to the Nazis is use against the rethugs )as Senator Byrd did awhile back and was roundly criticized by noless than Santorum). Often its turned back against the speaker to discredit him/her/the position. I don't think the parallels are even close. But that's not the point.

Totalitarianism has been reinvented for the media/digital age by a combination and cooperation of anti-democrats. In this case, their ruse is that they are the true democrats -- not only at home but abroad -- a messsage they promote, saturate, and enforce in the ears of the masses, through the blunt megaphone of the so-called media.

As many have pointed out, the Republican power machine has become unhinged, willing to tell all lies at the service of gaining more, and total, control and power. Is there really any opposition? Or will such potential opposition, individually and as organized force, virtually make accommodation with the thuggish power possessors for the myriad of reasons that one can delude oneself that we are not really approaching the abyss