Roberto Bolaño forces me to confront what I will do if the Republican party recaptures significant political power over the next few election cycles. I suspect they will use their subpoena power to visit upon Obama's administration the same kind of death by a thousand cuts to which they subjected Clinton's.
And after they derail Obama we'll get eight years of a Bush-like stooge, perhaps Palin, with a Cheney-like fascist again controlling the strings.
I doubt I can spend my declining years under another Pinochet regime. My self-disgust for having remained a US citizen during Cheney's reign of terror was mitigated only by the hope that we could come to our senses, put the miscreants in dock (here, the Hague, Madrid, wherever), and roll back their crimes.
But should the Republicans regain significant power, I fear we are in for another reign of the black shirts, who will have no trouble enlisting brown shirts as enforcers. A significant portion of the citizenry will passively watch, perhaps take an active part. We'll slide further into the 19th Century, perhaps worse.
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