The empire is striking back. That is the empire of greed, control and entitlement. This year will be a make-or-break election for the GOP, not for the GOP many Americans grew up with, but rather the GOP that many Americans have yet to see for what it is.
The Republicans want America “back”, and they don't care who they hurt, or what they do to ensure the shift back to the right; preventing the President from enacting policies that The Right has dubbed, “the drift to socialism”.
We have come a long way from the darkness that was the first eleven months of 2008. Yes, I agree with Republicans that the economy has not come far enough, but after almost four years of posturing against the legitimacy of any other political discourse than their own what are we to expect?
From 2008 to the midterm elections the far right has pushed back on progress, and pulled the moderates into a position that no compromise could save. As we have recently learned, the plot started while the President and First Lady were celebrating the inauguration. Then with the low turnout of the 2010 midterms we saw a surge to The Right. While the new Conservative Congress promised jobs, they instead advocated the return of age-old socially regressive policies.
Guns, God and Gays have become the policy of a party that is certainly not our fathers’ GOP; more like our Great Grandfathers’. A party more interested in red scares, exclusive world views, cultural dominance, birther conspiracies and Orwellian language to hide the true message of The Right today. I would hope America has had enough of this rhetoric.And as we have seen lately it appears that even the Catholic Church, not the usual standard bearer of Progressive thought, has risen to the challenge to push back on the misrepresentation of religion in the Republican attack on every day Americans’.
I feel the best way to sum up the way Republicans feel entitled to be the only voice in public discourse is to quote House Speaker Boehner: "Blah, Blah, Blah, Blah." That is his answer to threat of a veto on the Republican attempt to address the student loan crisis and The Rights view of any discourse but their own. Hopefully, in 2012 this view will “self-deport” from political discourse. We can't solve problems through one party solution. That is not American; rather, it is antithetical to our system of Governance