I'm sure there are those who pine for those heady days when the constitution was overthrown in favor of a crony elite.
Anyway, that's what da boyz down at the coffee shop apparently think, they all kinda snort and nod when somebody throws that particular dog whistle out.
Best I can figure, they are under the mistaken impression that they are on the team, or maybe just happy that the lucre is going to rich people who deserve it rather than the teaming masses who are trying to climb the ladder past them.
BTW, one of the key events during the coup looms large in the current ebola situation. The still unsolved Amerithrax case (as far as the national academy of sciences is concerned) created a similar panic and was used to funnel vast amounts of stimulus money into the economy disguised as bioterrorism defense spending. Surely you'd think the fruits of that spending would be evident somewhere in the current effort?
Of course the other objective of the Rovian strategy was to create panic and build emotional support for an invasion of Iraq. It was remarkably successful (as was the keynesian spending DHS and war spending provided, for a while) and goes to prove, once again, that you should never underestimate the credulousness and ignorance of sizable swaths of the US public.
