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In reply to the discussion: Biting political analysis of the McCain funeral from Jeet Heer: [View all]The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)Removing trump is not enough. We have a whole party of traitors to contend with and their path to the destruction of our republic has been long. I agree with the analysis. In 2008 with the mortgage meltdown we had the chance to truly change the economy and make it work for everyone. I love Bam, but I feel the way he handled the mortgage crises was one of his two biggest mistakes (the other being the ACA which itself was modeled after the highly flawed Heritage Foundation plan). I don't know if Bam should have pursued prosecution against the bankster, but I do know that the bank bailout in the form of the HARP program should have been used to keep everyone in their homes. The only people who should have lost their properties should have been those who used the fraudulent loans to purchase second and investment properties. This was a fatal error on Bam's part. But the illusion of a prosperous and strong economy was already shattered during the Clinton era with the collapse of LTCM. LTCM was only a practice run for what would happen with the bank and auto industry bailout. Next we Americans become little more than passive slaves when the we were cheated out of the 2000 election, and the "Supreme" court stole our vote. This of course was only a practice run for the grand theft carried out by trump, the Russian and the republicans. We allowed ourselves during the Bush years to be suckered into a false patriotism that was used against our interest in taking us both into Afghanistan and Iraq. Billions upon trillions of our resources were squandered in those wars in order to line the pockets of war profiteers. Where we are now is our own fault, we became a complacent and subservient folk with the mythology of land of the free and home of the brave becoming as meaningless as Santa Claus showing up to eat mommies cookies on December 25th. Even now, in our oh so holy outrage of what is happening to our government and our land we console ourselves in snark, place false hope in a system that has already shown itself to be corrupt, and fail to take any meaningful action to relieve ourselves of this nightmare because of the "inconvenience". It's truly sad to watch a once great country with high ideals devolve into little more that a shithole, banana republic with big guns due to our complacence. Many who talk a big game now will find themselves with bent knee in the very near future because actually doing something is too "inconvenient". This is how America dies, by it's own hand.