Gotta give the other side credit, they've fucked up the country for the past two decades, gotten numerous Americans killed in far off places making our country damn near a pariah around the planet. Managed to bring the western world to the brink of an economic collapse and managed to trash the pillars of an independant media and judiciary that are the actual foundations of this country into being political tools for use by the wealthy elite. Despite all of this, they've managed to scare, cajole and dupe the American public into believing that they have answers to our problems.
Obviously - There Ain't No Fucking Justice
It's time to get serious about how to get our point across. There is one basic fact that Democrats have overlooked to their peril and need to adopt as their theme for the next two years.
Follow The Money.....
That's is essentially what this is all about, who is buying our government and what do they want it to do....
It's strange, I was brought up in an environment that essentially boiled down to, if you do what you're told, what you understand to the be the right thing to do and do it properly, then everything else more or less takes care of itself. Sadly, I can't in all honesty sell that to my kids anymore. This is essentially rule by the richest, the old Golden Rule, he who has the gold, makes the rules.
It's pretty evident based on the electoral results, that we see showing up on our screen every fifteen minutes, is that money talks. I haven't heard about one specific jobs program that the Republicans have offered as a solution. Have you? Yet, the exit polls are all about jobs, yet who is going to create them? Bring down the defecit, tax cuts, duh, everyone wants that but then who the hell is gonna hire folks? They haven't done it yet, but now that the foxes are back in the henhouse. So exactly when will the doors of big business open again to promote more jobs and more products?
I don't understand the hows and why of why people haven't thought these things through.....for example....a typical proposition...
Eliminate the Dept. of Education.....
okay, there goes all of that college grant money....that'll kick those lazy ass minority students out of college and taking those retail jobs that are so prevelant out there, or to replace those immigrant workers, so they can now pick buckets of green chilis instead at .50 a bucket, or replace all those guys working on construction, or roofing or painting or landscaping. That'll solve our immigrant problem at the same time!
but that also means no government grants for research on damn near everything. No new medicines, no advancement in the hard sciences, a lack of understanding of how things work or interrelate in the world around us. Good luck finding a scientist to help with anything new that might be needed. But on the plus side, now all those acedemic weenies have to go out and find real jobs. Oops, forgot, the unemployment rate is already too high and now were dumping more folks onto the streets.
I hear idiots like Rep Blackburn from TN say that we need to limit discretionary spending....but then she refuses to say what she'll cut. How about your salary ma'am, because it damn sure doesn't sound like you're intending to do anything regarding earning it.
The way out of this mess, isn't going backwards, its going forward and until we get control of our own electoral process again, this country simply isn't going to be a very nice place to live for about 85% of us. In order for us to do that, we certainly need people who can communicate a damn site better than Harry Reid and can inform the voting public about what is going on and why its important to them and how it effects them. Thus far, mr. Kaine and Mr. Reid have done a damn pisspoor job of doing just that.