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Then they will run in 2014 how they will make things better. I wonder how many voters will fall for that idea.
It is the old after I have beaten you I will make it better when I stop.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Close to half,I'll wager.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)They have been programmed to hate minorities, unions, workers, living wages, fair labor standards, pensions, environmental laws, etc, etc. Anything that moves societies and people forward.
Flashmann
(2,140 posts)Me either...In this age and political climate,optimisim seems a likely path to a painful collision with reality.
Almost half bought into the demonstrably blatant falsehoods of and approved of the immediate damages promised by,and then voted for,rmoney/lyan...
They'll swallow the next bucket full of shit just as eagerly.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)During my entire career at DOL the Fair Labor Standards Act, Unions, public employees, the minimum wage, Socal Security, Medicare and other New Deal policies were an accepted law of the land. Now that every bit of it is under attack and has political support I am not sure what to think. Turning on all these initiatives is suicide long and short term.
There is NO future for the children with the kind of world that has NO labor protections. And why so many boomers and seniors have turned on what brought them economic is just impossible to understand. I sense an ugly mood in the country and we are so balkanized and fragmented.
I have some hope for radical change and reversal of GOP policies. The GOP has become murderously insane and maniacal. The fights over the budget in the fall are going to be so nasty. What they want will literally kill a lot of people for real.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Just don't take us and the world economy there in the interim.
TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)There are no moderate Republicans left. When Mitch McConnell is not conservative or mean enough for the tea baggers you have to wonder what they want. Death camps for nonbelievers.