We are here because the U.S. is going to end soon. There?s going to be an intense, violent, probably haphazard struggle for control. It?s going to come down to us versus them. The question is: What are you going to do about it??
Christian fundamentalists, the millennial end-of-the worlders obsessed with the Left Behind series about the End Times, neo-Nazi racists, rural black-helicopter Michigan Militia types cut from the same inbred cloth as Timothy McVeigh, allied with ?mainstream? gun nuts and right-wing Republicans, have been planning, preparing, and praying for the destruction of the ?Godless,? ?secular? United States for decades. In the past, they formed groups like the John Birch Society and the Aryan Nations. Now the hard Right has a postmodern, decentralized non-organization organization called the Tea Party.
Right-wing organizational names change, but they amount to the same thing: the reactionary sociopolitical force?the sole force?poised to fill the vacuum when collapse occurs. The scenario outlined by Margaret Atwood?s prescient novel The Handmaid?s Tale?rednecks in the trenches, hard military men running things, minorities and liberals taken away and massacred, setting the stage for an even more extreme form of laissez-faire corporate capitalism than we?re suffering under today?is a fair guess of how a post-U.S. scenario will play out unless we prepare to turn it in another direction?
A war is coming. At stake: our lives, the planet, freedom, living. The government, the corporations, and the extreme right are prepared to coalesce into an Axis of Evil. Are you going to fight back? Will you do whatever it takes, including taking up arms??
The millions of partisans who follow Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, and right-wing televangelists happen to be the best-armed people around, and they despise just about everyone who doesn?t think and pray like them. They will see collapse as affirmation of their beliefs that secular liberalism is destructive. They will also see it as an opportunity to create a new, ordered world atop the ashes. They will act to stop teenage sluts from getting abortions, teach ******s a lesson, and slaughter those spics, dots, and everyone else who doesn?t fit into their vision of what and who is right?
I want to kick people in the ass. To get them thinking. To get you thinking. I want you to understand the situation?your situation. I want you to see that revolt is a good idea, and that it has never been more necessary. I also want you to size up the opposition (both the government and the extreme right): They will never get weaker. We have as good a chance at taking them on as ever.
- excerpt from Ted Rall's new book, The Anti-American Manifesto
So lefties, are you ready to kick some right wing, Tea Party butts? Ted wants you to take up arms and fight us. Are you prepared to do that?
