If 2012 was the end of an era, I haven't noticed. The era of
denialism is still rolling along, thank you very much and the ridiculous
Right is getting better with practice. The 2012 Election you see,
didn't accurately reflect public sentiment at least the sentiment as
viewed through ruby red glasses.
Jim DeMint seems to think the Right didn't get a fair hearing,
even though the echo of their primal scream still is as detectible as
the Cosmic Background Radiation. And besides it's just not fair. In a
fair and balanced world elections don't count, you know, because the
true voice of the people is only communicated in Gnostic fashion by a
mystical connection, not by those lying ballots. In a Fair and Balanced
world people wouldn't notice that Jim strongly endorsed Romneycare in
2007: they wouldn't notice that the voters elected someone who promised
health care reform and re-elected him over the guy who couldn't stop
inventing reasons why it was no longer good now that the Democrats
endorsed it. They wouldn't notice that the Supreme Court endorsed the legality.
Of
course Jim and all the GOP DeMintos hope you don't remember the era of
"the silent majority" whose silence was the result of their not actually
being there because he seems to be offering the same pathetic Nixonian
explanation for the rejection of his own imaginary majority. But of
course we do remember, we do notice and even the Sultan of Slime, Karl
Rove himself seems bewildered by the insanity he's nourished into full
monsterhood, shuffling toward Fort Sumpter to be born.
No,
October first won't be the end of an era either, since some eras go on
as if in a parallel universe, close to but separate from ours. It may
be the beginning of one however; an era in which the burden of illness
and the cost of healthcare won't be a drag on upward mobility and
entrepreneurship, but the old one will continue like some antique and
grotesque paganism and people will continue to profit from the hysteria.
More appeals to stock up on emergency supplies,
special vaults in which to hide your guns and ammunition (stock up now
before Obama takes them away) for the coming apocalypse and the horrible
hordes of marauding minorities. . .
Captain,
ReplyDeleteSpeaking for myself, I am getting damn sick and tired of legislative obstruction and gridlock, filibustering, holding America hostage, threatened shutdowns of government, and a looming default on public debt (which may start a worldwide financial panic).
Republicans are not partners in representative democracy anymore. More like a bad marriage to an abusive spouse, they have been violating boundaries and violating the public trust since the last shutdown in 1996.
Like a bad marriage, Tea Party Republicans cannot distinguish between YOURS, MINE, and OURS. The United States is not just THEIR country; it is also OUR country and MY country. It spends not just THEIR tax money; it spends OUR tax dollars and MY tax dollars too. Public policy without compromise and consensus is not my idea of “consent of the governed” when bullying and hostage taking leaves the majority disenfranchised.
I say “majority” because this president won two convincing elections, which the Republicans have tried, at every turn, to thwart and overturn. Today’s GOP are nascent totalitarians.
1996? I think we've been fighting this battle since the beginning. We squawk about "freedom" like demented parrots, but haven't we been trying to make it illegal to criticize the government since John Adams' Sedition act of1789 while denouncing the very concept of government at the same time? The same country that was arresting people for criticizing Bush has no problem throwing shit all over Obama and threatening his children. Hell no, they're not partners.
DeleteBut we could have voted the bastards out long ago. It's our collective fault for being petty and shortsighted and prejudiced and selfish and childish and apathetic and ignorant and uncaring and narrow minded and vindictive and cowardly and mean spirited and greedy and self pitying. We've got no excuse for being ignorant and stupid enough to fall for rhetoric justifying cutting off food assistance even for military families by people who talk about "giving them the blessing of work" and buy into their lies about the government getting in between you and your doctor. . .
Plutocracy, Theocracy, even Feudalism, but one thing we do not have is Democracy.