The Next Four Years - Politics As Usual
Since Obama was elected as President of the United States there has been genuine joy from many people around the world. The Americans who supported him have been briefly living in a sort of rose colored glasses, utopian high.
Just like drugs and alcohol make it far easier to simply ignore facts which conflict with one’s chosen perception, this Obama High has temporarily blinded the roughly one half of Americans who supported him (including me). Many people have been living under an unrealistic perception that things are going to get better once Obama takes office on January 20, 2009.
The right wingers have also undergone a bit of a perception shift. Now that they are convinced that they are the underdogs, they are getting meaner and more vicious by the day. Obama will truly try to reach across the aisle to the red neck right wingers, but they do not intend to reciprocate. Not at all.
The USA has lived through a decade where nothing substantial could be accomplished by the government due to gridlock. The Republicans are plotting and strategizing right now to make this even worse.
It is not just the nigger-hating lunatics like the Ku Klux Klan who are truly concerned about a smart, articulate, black man becoming president. It is many of the white upper middle class types. The medical doctors and business owners who have been making several hundred thousand dollars per year (and up), and who have gotten used to paying very little taxes. The mere mention of progressive taxation or heaven forbid: redistribution of wealth makes them get purple in the face.
I am glad that Obama is surrounding himself by experienced, bright, moderates. The greedy self-centered right wingers are certainly going to do their best to portray him and his policies as leftist, socialist, and communist. They will do their best to make him seem unpatriotic, maybe even as treasonist. I’m sure that already there are some congressional staffers with law degrees working on the best strategy to impeach Obama.
Yes, the Republicans will try to make the next four years “politics as usual.” But these are not usual times. The rapacious greed of these right wing crooks has pushed the American economy to the absolute breaking point.
The conflict between the ideas of greed and anything goes. Versus rule of law and social justice is going to come out into the open. We saw a little of this in the 1960’s. Mayor Daley’s brutality and the wanton killing of innocent students at Kent State University by the American military made both sides stop and think. And each side backed off, just a little.
This time fifty years have passed. The right wingers have had half a century to prove that eliminating all government regulation of business and rich people, and that trickle down economics is the way to go. This philosophy has been shown to be a DISMAL FAILURE.
America is rapidly becoming more like Mexico. A very wealthy class, a rapidly shrinking middle class, and a growing angry underclass of poor people. More and more Americans who don’t have health insurance, who can’t afford to send their kids to decent universities, and who won’t have much of any pension at all when they get too old to work.
This situation is becoming a little dangerous and unstable.
The policies of the big R. The right wingers. The republicans. The racists. This is what has brought the country to this terrible situation.
Now it comes out that the U.S. Army is openly planning on how to deal with “unforeseen economic collapse” and the “rapid dissolution of public order in all or significant parts of the US.” There is vigorous debate between police forces and the military about who should deal with the upcoming public violence once the poor people (ex-middle class people) in America begin to realize that the wealthy are trying to stick it to them again. This Army study of the situation is entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional “Strategic Shocks” in Defense Strategy Development.” -This report by the U.S. Army war college is causing some seismic waves.
Even during the great depression in the 1930’s the U.S. Military was not used to quell civil disturbances.
Using the Army to kill American civilians at home on American soil just seems a little too much like what one would expect to have seen in communist Russia, or in Hitler’s fascist Germany, or by Mao in China.
The point? Toughen up you folks who believe in social justice and you Liberals. Getting Obama elected was the very first teeny-tiny little baby step. The fight has just begun. The right wingers are sure getting prepared to do battle.
What the country witnessed in the 1960’s was kindergarten stuff compared to what is coming up in the next four years.
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Just like drugs and alcohol make it far easier to simply ignore facts which conflict with one’s chosen perception, this Obama High has temporarily blinded the roughly one half of Americans who supported him (including me). Many people have been living under an unrealistic perception that things are going to get better once Obama takes office on January 20, 2009.
The right wingers have also undergone a bit of a perception shift. Now that they are convinced that they are the underdogs, they are getting meaner and more vicious by the day. Obama will truly try to reach across the aisle to the red neck right wingers, but they do not intend to reciprocate. Not at all.
The USA has lived through a decade where nothing substantial could be accomplished by the government due to gridlock. The Republicans are plotting and strategizing right now to make this even worse.
It is not just the nigger-hating lunatics like the Ku Klux Klan who are truly concerned about a smart, articulate, black man becoming president. It is many of the white upper middle class types. The medical doctors and business owners who have been making several hundred thousand dollars per year (and up), and who have gotten used to paying very little taxes. The mere mention of progressive taxation or heaven forbid: redistribution of wealth makes them get purple in the face.
I am glad that Obama is surrounding himself by experienced, bright, moderates. The greedy self-centered right wingers are certainly going to do their best to portray him and his policies as leftist, socialist, and communist. They will do their best to make him seem unpatriotic, maybe even as treasonist. I’m sure that already there are some congressional staffers with law degrees working on the best strategy to impeach Obama.
Yes, the Republicans will try to make the next four years “politics as usual.” But these are not usual times. The rapacious greed of these right wing crooks has pushed the American economy to the absolute breaking point.
The conflict between the ideas of greed and anything goes. Versus rule of law and social justice is going to come out into the open. We saw a little of this in the 1960’s. Mayor Daley’s brutality and the wanton killing of innocent students at Kent State University by the American military made both sides stop and think. And each side backed off, just a little.
This time fifty years have passed. The right wingers have had half a century to prove that eliminating all government regulation of business and rich people, and that trickle down economics is the way to go. This philosophy has been shown to be a DISMAL FAILURE.
America is rapidly becoming more like Mexico. A very wealthy class, a rapidly shrinking middle class, and a growing angry underclass of poor people. More and more Americans who don’t have health insurance, who can’t afford to send their kids to decent universities, and who won’t have much of any pension at all when they get too old to work.
This situation is becoming a little dangerous and unstable.
The policies of the big R. The right wingers. The republicans. The racists. This is what has brought the country to this terrible situation.
Now it comes out that the U.S. Army is openly planning on how to deal with “unforeseen economic collapse” and the “rapid dissolution of public order in all or significant parts of the US.” There is vigorous debate between police forces and the military about who should deal with the upcoming public violence once the poor people (ex-middle class people) in America begin to realize that the wealthy are trying to stick it to them again. This Army study of the situation is entitled “Known Unknowns: Unconventional “Strategic Shocks” in Defense Strategy Development.” -This report by the U.S. Army war college is causing some seismic waves.
Even during the great depression in the 1930’s the U.S. Military was not used to quell civil disturbances.
Using the Army to kill American civilians at home on American soil just seems a little too much like what one would expect to have seen in communist Russia, or in Hitler’s fascist Germany, or by Mao in China.
The point? Toughen up you folks who believe in social justice and you Liberals. Getting Obama elected was the very first teeny-tiny little baby step. The fight has just begun. The right wingers are sure getting prepared to do battle.
What the country witnessed in the 1960’s was kindergarten stuff compared to what is coming up in the next four years.
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