Kunstler on Dubya' as Louis XVI

In his weekly blog, the always irreverent James Howard Kunstler argues insightfully that President Bush's opponents spend too much time in fruitless hand-wringing over the prez's potential to usher in a era of fascist despotism. The prez for Kunstler is like a Louis XVI ushering in an era when all of America's institutions of power have lost legitimacy. Kunstler suggests in Walt Kelly Pogo-ish fashion that we have met the enemy, and he is us:

"But if the American public becomes subject to political despotism in the years ahead, it will come from somebody other than Bush and it will come because the public will demand it. The American public itself has been so grossly passive, complacent, and irresponsible in its raptures of credit-card shopping, infotainment, and easy motoring, that when our society runs into trouble due to the things we have ignored, the public will beg to pushed around, they will crave to be directed toward some purposeful action to save their asses."

I had an opportunity to interview Kunstler for almost an hour on Radio Commentary. You can access that interview here.