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While the take that "it can't happen" or "this shows how nuts in hating Bush some people are", can be very legitimate.

One does have to ask the question, "Why are so many people afraid of what Bush is doing and do think he is capable of doing something like this?"

It's not the press, I have yet to see them truly dig at Bush like they did Clinton.

I just have never seen this oddity or as a student of history read of anything like this, since the Civil War, where albeit a small minority, but not as small as one may think, is so in fear of the US government and it's president, that he may try something to stay in office.

We can argue it's partisan politics, but there are those in the GOP party that are worried and have lost faith in the man.

This is not to flame, this is truly my wondering why this is happening.

Is it an anomoly in our political system that perhaps has been building for sometime and it just happens Bush is in office as we peak with our fears of government?

Is there rationality behind the fears that the people see?

Is it we are at a crossroads where people are so split in political (and even economical) theories that the belief that this election is so much more important than any in the past people on both sides are becoming worried about what is going to happen?

Is it partisan politics have gotten so far out of hand that people have or are losing faith and looking for corruption in our system?

Or is it human nature in some to want to sense conspiracies and secret agendas in things, so as in some way to be able to say, "see, things are rigged so I have no control, so why should I care."

Or could it be a bit of all?

Just curious and wondering what you all think.

And this is very much political because it can influence how people vote, or if they vote at all.

It also opens, HOPEFULLY, a peaceful dialect to understanding why and what people are thinking and how to maybe dissolve fears and misunderstandings and hatreds.

Perhaps, even help put to rest these paranoid theories and conspiracies (at least in our little world on this board).

There is ONE thing EVERYONE (I'm sure one could argue the use of "everyone") wants and is striving for and that is a better America for our children.

How we get there, though, depends on your philosophies on politics and economics, but both sides want the same thing.

(Other boards I've tried this on are either so "Rense'd out or Limbaugh'd out" that they refuse to try a civil dialect and understanding of the other side. Hopefully, this board can have the civil dialect, I know we have far more tolerant and civil people here.

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