After reading Keith Olbermann's blog entry titled "Karl Rove on Maple Street" I remember that I posted about that episode last October:

I was getting ready for the trick or treaters and watching the Giants game when I surfed over to CPTV. They were having a special on The Twilight Zone and Rod Serling. The clip I saw was "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". This was a great, as all the shows were, commentary on how neighbors and friends could turn on each other because of fear or unexplained events. I think Serling's closing comment is so appropriate for current times: "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout, There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes. pregudices - to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own - for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."

As Keith so aptly puts it:

...the larger point here takes us back to Rod Serling's apocryphal "Maple Street." Substitute "terrorists" for "aliens" and Maple Street becomes the current American political scene. If there really is a functional al-Qaeda on the continent, it hasn't needed to attack us since 9/11 because we're all the Claude Akins and Jack Westons from the episodes accusing each other of collaboration. In this vital area at least, the terrorists have already won. Nobody has to tear our country down; our leaders are doing it for them.

I probably won't get the quote exactly right but the comic strip "Pogo' had one character say "We have met the enemy and he is us." Again maybe not exactlt the point but the notion that we are destroying ourselves is so appropriate for current conditions, politics and events.