I know we are not completely happy with the democrats but I can't understand how after 2 contentious years with numerous displays of racism and cries of socialism the democrats still managed to get so many things through with an unyielding and uncooperative minority party in congress.
We managed to pass a healthcare reform package, although not perfect it could be improved on. Wall street reform. A consumer protection agency, and many other improvements.
I understand the anxiety about jobs, but the jobs have been growing unfortunately at too slow a rate. Previoulsy they had been disappearing at to great a rate. With all that said I can't understand why we are getting ready to throw out the democrats and return the party who for 30 years did nothing to help the middle class grow and somehow this is supposed to be good for us. Am I living in an alternate universe?
Republicans have never done one thing for any group/s except the wealthy ( I have a few bucks), the whites (yes I am one) and the christians (yes I am one.) They have however been the party of obstructionism and no especially in the past 2 years. With most of the country struggling, because of their failed policies, they refused to lift a finger to do anything to relieved the suffering of most of the country. They refused to work with the legally elected president of the United States and became the party of NO, NO, NO and NO WAY and still they are going to take control of congress this year. REALLY!!! What is their next act to become the party of ABSOLUTELY NO WAY and this is their plan for governing.
These are the guys who want people to be paid on the merit system. Do a good job and you get paid. Does this apply to them? If I showed up for work every day and just said NO I wouldn't have my job for very long.
I think that may be what bothers me the most is a double standard for them and us. So in this state of political party confusion I am proposing a third party. The reciprocal action party or RAP. It works like this.
Unemployment hits 9 percent then 9 percent of the congress gets fired (reciprocal action). Wages remain stagnant for 30 years, the wages of congress remain stagnant. After all we pay for their wages so we should have the control. No healthcare for us, sorry no healthcare for you. Eliminate our Social Security and .... you guessed it. Why do we have to continue to pay for people who will not do as we say?
WE need to insist that our legislators do our bidding not the bidding of their lobby buddies, so we must also have public financing of campaigns. Every candidate gets the same amount of money to spend and may the best man win.
Every job that gets sent out of the US to another country, so do the people who voted to send the jobs there. If you love the third world so much then go live there before we become a third world country. (which I have been saying would happen for the past 20 years, I hate it when I'm right). I could go on for a while but what I most fear is a complete breakdown of our society if things continue as they are. If we do not focus in on the problems we have as a country and do something about them as a collective force we are doomed. The old "divide and conquer" still works but what is the end result? A country that works for no one? Are we going to let that happen by bringing back into power the worst people who don't give a damn about the middle or the poor. Who hide behind lofty platitudes like "family values" and then undermine those families with their economic policies... poverty is a family value too, I think you forgot that or your overlords have you so in their control that it doesn't resonate with you.
Democrats and Progressives, we cannot allow this to happen. WE MUST VOTE. Put your apathy in the back seat on the way to the polling place and vote for God's sake. If you don't and the results are as bad as I think they will be and they will then it's not the Republicans fault of the Tea Party or the Talking Heads on radio or television, it will be our fault because we did it to ourselves. We don't live in a perfect world so we cannot expect perfection from our political party but we know what to expect from the other. The Democrats may not get everything done the way we want them to but they do get things done even in the most difficult of times. What we need now is more Democrats not less. So do you job and keep these people in power and if possible increase their number because WE deserve it.