Bush has some of the rhetoric of the Christian right wing, but he is far more akin to a totalitarian dictator than he is to conventional Republican conservatism or fundamental Christianity. He needs the war to get people scared enough to put their trust in his leadership. The tactic of branding dissenters as traitors and the practice of using deception to pass legislation as well as the use of the Orwellian "doublespeak" to describe legislation and environmental initiatives are the trademarks of a dictator not a republican or democratic leader. The Bush faction has also played more heavily to the fears and prejudices of the citizenry than we are accustomed. Many of us in America expect public figures to lie and misrepresent facts, but Bush has redefined the political lie. Whether Bush is the threat, or whether he is a front man for a diabolical group of business leaders, is not that clear at present, but there is a dangerous force on the horizon. The political state of America has gone beyond the typical rivalry of Democrats and Republicans and the country has been polarized by the inflammatory use of terms like conservative and liberal. This is certainly one of the most critical elections in the history of this country.