Really?

[james_davis_nicoll]

"leftist SF critic James Nicoll"? Leftist?

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[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

http://ricketyclick.com/blog/index.php/2012/04/23/a-bucket-of-air/

And hmm, refugee50s LJ profile does in fact link there. So you're right!

*peruses*. Conspiratorial paranoia, democracy-hating (I like "Obama may suspend elections" followed by "Democracy looks like mob rule"), destroying pigs as casus belli for a Second Civil War...

But perhaps he misses other elements of the 1950s, like rapid economic growth with 70% top income tax rate and massive government investment in infrastructure?

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Really? That was just a guess, or in fact, a bait. Which he took.

[carloshasanax.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, by the way! He's utterly hilarious.

[eyelessgame.livejournal.com]

What were the odds? :) In a way it's reassuring to see so much of it concentrated in one person, rather than being more spread. But he's only the instantiation of a narrow-sliver Venn diagram overlap, for which the circle that is not "people who will comment on the politics of James Nicoll" is distressingly large.

Re "Obama may suspend elections": way back in the socialist hellhole of the 1990s, I had a rabid Clinton-hating cow orker, who said at one point "The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't elect a president in 2000."

Unfortunately I had lost all contact with him (he had moved to Idaho, what were the odds?) by 2000, or I would have looked him up and expressed my admiration for his precognitive abilities.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

To be fair, I ran across a few liberals who were genuinely afraid that Bush Jr. would cancel the 2008 election and declare himself President-For-Life.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I had... some worries in 2004. Not very serious ones, and they weren't about the president canceling the election, they were airport-thriller conspiracy scenarios about staged terrorist attacks. Having the Democratic Convention in your town will do that.

[pickledginger.livejournal.com]

Bush had briefly talked in 2004 about possibly having to suspend that election on account of terrorists, so I think he was the source of those worries four years later.

[agent-mimi.livejournal.com]

This suspiciously smells of someone who, having not gotten enough out of trolling James' journal, took it to another website in a deliberate effort to escalate.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I find the "genuine thanks" explanation plausible.