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If there's one thing I'm hating about this election cycle is that it's making me feel like a paranoid loon.

McCain suspending his campaign is making my spidey sense tingle in a really fucked up way. I wouldn't bet anyone $20 that something totally outrageous isn't about to happen.

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I think the debate "delay" tactic is just that -- they're not ready for any debates, if they ever will be. The financial crisis is a convenient excuse (though it does make me question just how convenient it is -- which is a silly question, but daaammnn this is quite a coincidence, isn't it?).

The army redeployment is what scares me more. I'm from a military family: this is unprecedented and goes against everything the military stands for -- it's the creation of a private standing army for the Executive Branch, is what it is. Deployed in time for the election.

I've been saying for years now, since Bush's first inauguration, these people are acting as if they're there to stay forever -- and have all the ducks in order to do so, whatsoever they need to do. Yes, I sounded like I was running down the street with my hair on fire screaming about Jesus (to misquote PNH), and I knew it at the time, but my suspicions seems to have somewhat played out.

Have you read Heinlein's For Us, the Living? His description of how the "last president of the U.S." takes over the country, piece by piece, is almost exactly the same pattern, right down to the army deployments and economic meltdown. (It's also a precursor to his "Future History" volumes.) (It's otherwise a rather boring book that's clearly a trunk novel, but worth the read for that alone.) I doubt he knew he was actually predicting someone would use those tactics.

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Or was he? Perhaps the Bush administration has read the book and decided to follow it?

Of course, I don't know what year it was published in, and that's really the part that counts in the 'chicken vs. egg' debate.