Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.
I keep hearing from the President and other party leaders how our country needs to get past "partisanship". Well, sometimes it is a very good thing to work together and try to agree but the times we live in do not call for that particular solution. Yes folks, what we need right now is a good round of ugly, nasty, bitter partisanship to achieve progress for the working class.
I mean, look at what partisanship did for our country when the other side used it. During the six years that Republicans contolled the White House and Congress, not mention was made of working in a bi-partisan manner. With their kindred spirits in the Corporate Democrats many, many things were accomplished.
The worst attack ever on Americans on American soil was pulled off. Instead of capturing and bringing to justice the mastermind of this operation, a huge propoganda ploy was undertaken to fabricate enough evidence to implicate someone else to the simple-minded and a war was launched in another country that took precedence over the search for Osama bin-Laden and the deposing of the Taliban. Together both these wars have cost thousands of lives, and over a trillion dollars in American treasury. This was then "bi-partisan" "War on Terror".
Then because quite possibly the most incompetent administration in American history fumbled the ball and allowed a disasterous attack they were warned about it was decided that Americans giving up generations of Constitutional protections was needed, instead of competent leadership to prevent further attacks. If I seem to remember the Patriot Act and the FISA law were crammed down our throats in a pretty "bi-partisan" manner.
So what is all this talk about "bi-partisanship"?? In the last couple of decades bi-partisanship better known as "Corporate Democrats teaming with Republicans to produce horrible policies and laws", has nearly destroyed this country. It has brought us free trade which has decimated our dollar, wages, and middle-class. It has brought us rigged, bought elections. It has brought us two failed wars with no end in site. It has crashed our economy almost to the brink of another Great Depression and bailed out all the irresponsible folks who caused it in the first place.
During this time they have repeatedly insulted the American people and her workers. They have told us that we can blow up and rebuild middle-eastern countries over and over but we cannot spend one penney on our own land or people. We cannot extend health insurance to working families that do not have it, but we can pay huge money to insure our elected representatives and bail out greedy, irresponsible corporations. We honor our armed forces with talking points and send them away on failed policies wrought from failed vision.
Yes America, what we need right now is PARTISANSHIP!! The elites have gotten fat off the system that has bankrupted both the tea-bagger and the Progressive but at least the Progressive knows they have been had. America at this point in history needs desperately a partisan Progressive agenda that puts the welfare of our nation as a whole over the profits of the fatcats once again.
It is time we stopped allowing Communist China to annihilate our middle-class with slave labor. It is time we punish American Corporations who move work abroad to exploit virtual slave markets. It is time we fought to allow workers to negotiate with their skills and all workers were paid more in line with Executive salaries. It is time we brought our troops home from the middle-east and let Iraq and Afghanistan decide their own fates.
The mingling of Corporate Democrats and the Republican Party in "bi-partisanship" over the last couple of decades has been a disaster for this country and has sold our government away to the highest bidder. Anyone who does not realize that needs to share what they are smoking. The only course of action that will fix our ailing country is a true Progressive agenda shoved down the throats of Republican lawmakers if need be. Until that happens our country will continue to run around chasing its own tail.