First who are they? Well they are the invisible, dubious members of the former vast 'Right-Wing Conspiracy', that Hillary once mentioned who had placed her loved one, Bill in their sites or sights. The authoritarians are not ones who are at all comfortable with modern democracy, as in things like "elections have consequences" or actual civil rights and all that. Meaning they just don't really have a genuine or authentic allegience to stuff like the Constitution or the "rule of law".

John Dean wrote a book recently titled: "Conservatives Without Conscience" but that is a big mis-identification, true conservatives are not authoritarians, in fact real conservatives like Ron Paul actually holds in his pinky finger more belief in personal freedoms than Dick Cheney and George W Bush put together with their wives and children put together. True conservatives Richard Lugar or Olympia Snowe or even the new Democratic Senator and GOP renegade Arlen Spector believe in gradual change or maintaining the current institutions but authoritarians only believe in maintaining their own institution of absolute power.

John Perry, the decade long NewsMax columnist and former editor published a real warning today calling for a civilized (or sanitized) military coup de etat for the sake of "saving America" from the unconstitutional but duly majority elected government of Barack Obama and his Democratic Party majority. Really, a bloodless insurrection, one where the military breaks all military law and code through some elite officer corps and overtakes the democracy to save what----the authoritarian rule of the "them".

This public bomblast comes on the heals of a published survey that called for the assassination of the President. Just behind a US Congressman saying Obama is the enemy of humanity, after the throws of the August teabagging and astro turf generated "town hall" insurrection. What gives?

What gives is the authoritarians are coming. Riled and emotionally cued up by those who lost power last November authoritarians are the last vestiges or remnants of a 'left behind" white America who are totally intolerant of diversity and difference. They believe because of birthright and status they are entitled to some past America, where they had social status and privilage, but worse that others not of the "right thinking' should be punished or banished from their America. They are the "Palinites", the followers of 'Joe the Plumber", the white evagelical politicos of James Dobson and company, the extremists against abortion and believe that Medicare is not socialism but the public option is fascist-communism.

But behind that veil of ignorant, uneducated, bitter activists is the real perpetrators, those receiving the rewards and benefits of power---BIG CORPORATE AMERICA and the Caymen Islands, Bermuda, and what not. Obama must be a threat to them because he is really a populist, a dangerous power that might also be cutting into the elite in the US Military and the Intelligence conglomerates. Political Science teaches that authoritarian fascism is bred and born when an right-wing reactionary government is partnered with a highly monopolistic big business community and the military. I will add that it also takes a second degree of partnering with the domestic and foreign intelligence community and the mass media.

NewMax is part of that world, partnered with FOX News Corp and the franchises known as Limbaugh, Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity and the right wing radio talk. Don't underestimate the influence of mainstream media that has been taken over and contaminated by its Big Business parent companies, but what is not working is the effect of propaganda. I think this the Internet and blogosphere is to blame as more and more people are simply gaining their information from decentralized sources than from one news pool.

But yet I am concerned. Would an elite rightwing based officer corps stage a coup? Conceivably yes, there is NorthComm right here in Colorado Springs, CO. There is the means of communication and coordination. Would those in Congress sit idly by and allow the Congress to be dissolved? Would the Supreme Court and sitting justices there in the Appeals Circuits allow the government to be dismantled? Would the states allow this happen? Ultimately would the citizenry allow it to happen?

Dr. George Mosse the now deceased scholar on European Fascism who in his youth actually escaped Hitler when he was installed as the Supreme Leader of modern Germany in 1932 told me personally that someday there might be fools to try. America is as big as Russia when Napoleon and Hitler invaded it and in both cases the depth and expanse of attempting to control such a diverse huge nation collapses on its own weight.

But this is no ordinary threat exposed by Perry or the many others who are now hanging over the edge of the envelope of insurrection and treason. Ironically Grassley and Ensign both exposed the fear of the authoritarians yesterday as they debated the public option on health care when they said they feared it would prove too popular (and effective)---meaning it would cost BIG CORPORATE AMERICA money---forever. When a G-20 Summit leader asked Obama how it was he was being compared to Hitler for advocating healthcare reform it was inferred how nuts really are America corporate and right wing lunatics?

And yet this modern day Shakespeare play that has many Acts left to be narrated, the question is whether it ends like "Richard III" or "Julius Caesar". My guess is that Richard might be in order as the conspirators are exposed and Obama leads America against the odds of corporate authoritarians in a defining battle where all their knights are vanguished in the mud. But I am an idealist.