I think it's about time to leave...

Read this in the NY Times today. I'm only going to post the first two paragraphs:

Warning From a Student of Democracy's Collapse
By Chris Hedges

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Fritz Stern, a refugee from Hitler's Germany and a leading scholar of European history, startled several of his listeners when he warned in a speech about the danger posed in this country by the rise of the Christian right. In his address in November, just after he received a prize presented by the German foreign minister, he told his audience that Hitler saw himself as "the instrument of providence" and fused his "racial dogma with a Germanic Christianity."

"Some people recognized the moral perils of mixing religion and politics," he said of prewar Germany, "but many more were seduced by it. It was the pseudo-religious transfiguration of politics that largely ensured his success, notably in Protestant areas."

I've been thinking seriously about getting out of the United States. And following the Democrats pathetically weak response to the voting irregularities in Ohio, I'm becoming more and more convinced that this country is really going crazy. This piece in the Times only nudges me farther down that path. I think I'd better start studying French and researching emigrating to Canada.