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If the Republicans take both houses of Congress, get set for a repeat, only worse, of living in an Oligarchic Kleptocracy. It will be this because at the behest and control of the super-wealthy, we will have elected some of the most ludicrous, idiotic, bigoted, and short sighted legislators in our history, and all at once. The Senate could always tolerate a nut job or two. The house maybe a half dozen. But come January, we could have platoons of them in both houses. And the President will only be able to veto as he fends off one ridiculous charge after another, culminating in his impeachment for heaven only knows what infraction.
The Kleptocracy part comes from the government being unable to do, simply, anything. Under Bush, it was a Kleptocracy due to the fact that he appointed unqualified individuals to important posts. This time, in the second half of Obama’s term, he will likely be unable to appoint anybody to anything, as the Congress fails to approve his nominees, leaving vacancies for them to fill if they take the White House in 2012. Will the oligarchs let us improve public education these next two years? Their goal is to destroy it. Will emergency services be able to function in a Katrina like emergency.? Not without funding, they won’t. Suppose the time comes for the President to withdraw from Afghanistan. Moving large numbers of troops and equipment is expensive, and he cannot do it without money. Suppose the mortgage mess turns into economic shock number two (or is it three, I can’t remember). Do you think a Republican House and Senate will do what needs to be done to save the economy? No, because if the economy fails, it will on Obama’s watch, and they would rather see him and all of us go down the tubes than allow him to possibly succeed. The reaction to all these government failures will be anger. Not against the rich folk pulling the strings, but against the most visible target. The black guy in the White House.
Remember, the oligarchs want the people angry, just not at them. People should be angry at government, and what better way to make them so than to make government not work.
This election, we could be violating a fundamental principal of governance; don’t choose people to govern who hate government. It is bound to fail.
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