All of which is easy to dismiss as a dead end, and odds on it is. But, there is a real risk that if tough times go on to long the wingnutia could win some offices. At which point start buying canned goods. (or come visit us here in Australia, please form an orderly queue).

Glenn Beck is a clown but history tells us that clowns like him can end up leading movements that have real and horrible impact (usually by running full tilt at the cliff's edge). The Bill Kristol's of this world delight in empowering such clowns just to see the looks their opponents faces. Proof, as it more proof were needed, that they are, in fact, the work of the devil