Triumph of the Authoritarians - John Dean

Join us July 23, 2006 for week four--They'll Steal it by Lieing-- in our five-week Election Integrity series Steal Your Vote, Silence Your Voice: How Republicans Will Steal Your Vote in 2006 and Beyond...

We'll be talking with former Nixon White House counsel John Dean who has just published his seventh nonfiction book: Conservatives Without Conscience. We'll be discussing the second of two questions one must answer to determine if the 2004 elections--and hence those in the future--could be stolen: "...have we seen anything in the moral universe of George W. Bush, Karl Rove or Dick Cheney that would stop them from stealing an election for moral reasons?" (Dr. Robert Fitrakis).

John Dean: "For more than 40 years I have considered myself a 'Goldwater conservative,' and am thoroughly familiar with the movement's canon. But I can find nothing conservative about the Bush/Cheney White House, which has created a Nixon imperial presidency on steroids, while acting as if being tutored by the best and brightest of the Cosa Nostra."

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"What I found provided a personal epiphany. Authoritarian conservatives are, as a researcher told me, ``enemies of freedom, antidemocratic, antiequality, highly prejudiced, mean-spirited, power hungry, Machiavellian and amoral." And that's not just his view. To the contrary, this is how these people have consistently described themselves when being anonymously tested, by the tens of thousands over the past several decades."

Hat tip: Kat L'Estrange