Rush Limbaugh, dressed in all black to speak @ CPAC 2009, an obvious but failed attempt to camouflage his ever increasing girth, stood before a cheering crowd of angry, political red meat starved carnivore partisans and delivered a secessionist styled rant that heated up the chattering cable networks the entire weekend. Rush, the conservative’s conservative, called upon his dwindling minions to do whatever it takes to strike a blow against the Obama administration’s efforts to revive the nation’s economy.
Subscribing to a scorched earth policy, the Republicans are embarking upon a strategy of sitting on the sidelines and criticizing the Obama administration’s policies, proposals, solutions and related actions, while offering little if any of their own. Since they have apparently realized what most leading economists are quietly acknowledging - the economy is in a near irreversible downward spiral - they can continue their attacks with confidence that no matter what the Democrats try to do, they’ll be met with failure in the long term. The Republicans will simply place themselves in the position of being able to tout, "..we told you so..", for the 2010 elections.
In our opinion, this slimy, underhanded and demented "The South Shall Rise Again" appeal to the hard Right Wing thinkers of the Republican Party will resonate deeply and resurrect the worst of America. At a time when the world is clearly looking to the United States to repair the damage to the world’s economy - damage we caused - and show leadership once again, the hard Right Wing is using this crisis to stage a trailer park trash revolution.
While the hard Right is still strongest in the South and always will be, they can gain steam as the economy continues to flounder. As Americans keep losing their jobs, health care, homes and cars to bankruptcy courts and the repossession agencies, the more angrier people are going to get. When the spring and summer months are upon us and a new batch of college grads hit the shrinking job market, there are going to be a lot of hungry, desperate and idle folks lurking about.
With a voice like Rush Limbaugh ready and willing to incite the hopeless masses to demonstrate their frustrations at the lack of progress; progress the Republicans already knew would never be possible, they could infect Americans with the same insanity Hitler used to galvanize Nazi Germany just prior to WW2. This all may sound a bit extreme, but the parallels are frightening.
In all honesty, we have stated for nearly a year now that the American economy was in a perilous state and in all likelihood the country would collapse. We feared openly, that what our business leaders were allowed to do would crash the world’s economy, leading to a global economic contraction that would take two full decades to recover from.
We have said consistently that, while the election of Barack Obama was exactly what this country needed at its lowest point in recent American history, in and of itself would do little to change our all but certain demise. Despite our unyielding support for the Obama administration, we must yield to the fundamental truth that this country has been severely crippled and nobody to date has a crutch to help us lean upon.
President Obama was elected for one primary reason, and that was his ability to inspire hope; and he has performed admirably, living up to his campaign slogans and promises alike. But considering the circumstances, this leaves the door wide open for the mean, evil and spiteful amongst us, to create an atmosphere of dog-eat-dog divisiveness.
These times are ripe for the seeding of finger pointing, stirring up social unrest, hate and finding scapegoats. It is times like these when arguments against Affirmative Action gets louder, topics like immigration get more play, and don’t mess with the 2nd Amendment chatter makes its way to the fore. And don’t be surprised to hear the words freedom and liberty liberally used by the hard Right conservatives to bolster their otherwise weak positions.
We are living in very dangerous times and we must be as careful as we are vigilant to recognize the voices of political opportunists spewing vile non-sense; for pigs like Rush Limbaugh are simply trying to create chaos, at the nation’s expense, for their benefit. Click here for the podcast. http://retrovisionmedia.com/...