Yes, that’s pretty much the scenario I foresee.

Which is why, as I’ve said elsewhere, Obama needs to be stopped before he becomes too entrenched in power.

Even a cursory glance at 20th Century history shows that the collectivization of America will lead to massive suffering and horror.

I doubt that Obama can leverage a 9-11 event much. He’s too vulnerable to charges of weakening security while cozying up to our enemies and denouncing Bush and his policies.

Such an event would be a repudiation of his “talk loudly and carry a tiny stick” diplomacy.

The more pronounced danger IMO is that Obama will turn the US into a Chicago-style one-party state, while allowing our enemies to retrench, then expand their influence.

I voiced the same thought today, Wolla: We will have another 9/11, giving Hussein O the excuse for martial law to yield a totalitarian state.

Needless to say, I hope that doesn’t happen (either aspect). If we do have another 9/11, which I have to agree became a lot more likely as of 1/20/09, I expect/hope it would work strongly to Obama’s detriment.

Hard-core lefties and the truly soft-headed might defend him, but independents probably won’t buy it. After all, how long can the left continue blaming Bush for everything? At some point, they’re on their own account.

“Our positive is to hope for enough misery occuring domestically and abroad to wake Americans up?”

If no one has the basic tools to understand what is happening, how can they assign blame? Obama and the dems will just blame the misery on market excess, Bush, et cetera.

So far, it’s been working for them. We can only HOPE that it stops working… we don’t know that it will… Example, in the UK, the left blamed the failures of the NHS on Thatcher for over 20 years after she was out of office (most of which were really related to socialism not working, of course…)… The ploy kept sorta working so they just kept doing it…

We’re going to have to start from the ground up teaching people about economics, what these evil free markets really are, and then calmly explain who did what to get us here.

Voting in 2010 is not the answer.

Add to the picture I have drawn above the further increased taxes and costs, the hardships and economic dislocations caused by the imposition of Obama’s government takeover of health care, an industry that, one way or the other, is said to encompass one sixth of our entire economy.

Finally, add a Muslim terrorist attack invited by Obama’s obvious weakness, his blindness to the existential threat imposed by Islam, and his policy of decreasing our military forces and capabilities; an attack equal to or perhaps much greater than 9/11 in casualties, damage and financial and psychological impact.

Give the situation posited; can you see Obama & Co. asking a Democratic controlled Congress for and receiving the tools to impose even tighter control over America, under the guise of “protecting” and “saving” it? I sure can and voila, a Tyranny, a police state, in which any protest against the state is now a criminal act, is defined as extremism that is outlawed.

Unfortunately, I think that there is a good chance that bringing about such a Tyranny is what almost all of Obama’s actions and choices—which seem so illogical and misaimed if they really are intended to fix our economic “disaster”–are aimed at creating, and although he says that healing our nation is his aim, he is not concerned in any way with solving our problems in a way that preserves and protects our democracy, our rights or our capitalist system but–quite the contrary—is taking active steps as fast as he can to destroy them, before we can realize what he is doing, and react effectively to stop him.

No, I’ve been saying for a while that Obama is most suited to be a motivational speaker with a slick line of infomercials advertised on late-night TV.

How is this for a scenario?

Obama’s policies—particularly his tax and energy policies—deliberately make our economic “disaster” get worse, energy prices spike, and there is increased unemployment, more foreclosures and bankruptcies, housing prices stay low or even drop again, the stock market is a disaster and trending lower, more and more businesses are pushed over the edge by increased energy costs, are going under, consumers are reluctant to spend and, indeed, pull back from any but essential spending, and there is increased and general turmoil and distress in the land.

As a result, Tea Parties and other protests against government policies get bigger and louder and angrier and, there are a few incidents of violence around the country that the MSM and the Obama administration hype and try to tie to the protesters, and thanks to MSM commentators and Nepolitano’s DHS—which has laid the groundwork with its recent Report—the people who participate in Tea Parties or any other protest against the government and it’s policies are now labeled as dangerous “right wing extremists” and “racists” and, as such, such protests are seen as an “unhealthy” breeding ground for further violence, and, one way or the other, they are “discouraged,” and any push back by demonstrators is taken as proof of the demonstrators violent and extremist nature.

The economic distress and instability, and the threat of increased “extremism” and violence obviously calls for a tighter control over the availability of guns and ammunition, so some form of gun registration (proposed by Speaker Pilosi just last week) or control is enacted in this “Emergency.” The Democratic controlled Congress also authorizes a further large increase in the size and funding of all the “public service” organizations—chocked full of ACORN people and welfare beneficiaries doing their “mandatory” public service—and mostly Obama supporters–that make up Obama’s proposed “Civilian National Security Force,” whose members are now going to not only minister to the distressed, but also to be used as police auxiliaries.

You do see where this is going into some variant of Hitler, Mussolini, Mao and Castro land, right?