I have been thinking about this for awhile. I am just a little person and no political analyst, but it is just beginning to make sense because we are walking into a mess to clean up that should not be ours ~ and if we decide to own it, we are dead ducks. Is it any accident that the Republicans have such ridiculously idiotic candidates with little to offer except forced pregnancies, racism, classism and Jeeeeeeezus? I do not think so.
It should be no news to netroots folks that the Iraq mess is beyond help and whomever inherits it will get the blame as if Bush and his clan of warmongering greed heads had nothing to do with it. The economy is about to tank beyond help and the country will be full of dying cities and festering neighborhoods.
Whenever I listen to the candidates talk about bringing back the livable wage, I am terrified because they know it is not possible. Jobs are gone overseas and they are not coming back. They all know it. I know it. Scariest of all, this administration knows it and they would like nothing better to do what they have done since they did as privileged frat boys ~ slide out from the scene of the crime, make sure Daddy fixes it, and leave the most vulnerable mook holding the bag.
When the dominoes begin to fall nobody will remember what is happening now, there are few with long memories anymore. Our media is not robust enough to remember anything past the last day, and when the talking heads begin to point fingers, it will be all about what the present people in power are doing wrong that is not helping ~ even if it means that there is no solution and nothing can be done. Like Lucy's football prank and the last FISA vote, we already know our party acts like sheep and will follow anyone with helmet hair and white teeth idiot down the rabbit hole.
If the Dems were smart they would lose the next election cycle and make the Republicans take the fall. Because take it from an old lady who has seen a few things: Whichever political side "wins" this time will kill their party for years to come if not forever.
So perhaps we should hope to God we lose. Because we do not want to be the ones holding the bag, it will not only be burning but it is full of steaming, fetid shit. We've endured the insanity this long, it is only another 4 years (unless the torches and pitchforks take them out sooner by impeachment) and we would be the victors for half a century when we win everything by landslides n 2012. Then say, an Obama/Hillary ticket will go down in history as saints, and the Republican party's "win" would in reality be ritual suicide.
But who listens to an old lady on a late Friday night? This will slide under the radar and be lost, I already know it. Still, it will be stated as it should be ...
My 2 cents
Cat In Seattle