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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThink critically: Upon whom do you think the shit will stick?
Yes, high information liberals and left wing zealots think the repubicans are the bad guys, high information conservatives and right wing zealots think Democrats are the bad guys.
But out there in Average Personville, who will get the blame?
What do you think?
jollyreaper2112
(1,941 posts)Whoever is standing closest to the fan.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)Those whom people dislike, they blame....
LiberalLoner
(9,762 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)and there are stooges paid to scoop it up and throw it on the people who didn't make the shit.
highplainsdem
(49,004 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)Bake
MH1
(17,600 posts)Giving the dire warnings that they have been, may deflect some of it, but still, when election time rolls around, if the economy sucks, the party in power will mostly be blamed. (This last election notwithstanding, because the opposition still has to run a credible candidate to benefit.)
If the economy drags, I think most people will blame republicans.
If the economy soars (fat chance of that), then there will be more calls for cuts, and lots of propaganda that dems are clueless about economics. But since that ain't gonna happen ...
madokie
(51,076 posts)and it ain't as it seems. The President is Black, thats their problem. Can't be having a black man come in and fix what they so badly fucked up so they'll stand in the way as long as one of them is alive. This is a game to the rich and powerful, the money worshipers and they don't give a shit who it hurts cause they know it won't be them. Thats all they care about.
Pukes are going down is the fact of the matter here.
bigbrother05
(5,995 posts)They deliberately avoided anything that would have a positive effect on the country, see Reagan and Iran hostages. With Mitt in office, they would have quickly moved to fix this so his promised economic growth would proceed just as the CBO was predicting even without any changes to PBO's policies.
Because he's still in office, the RWNJs have to work overtime to tank the economy to salvage any possibility of proving that electing "That one" was a mistake, twice.
madokie
(51,076 posts)sufrommich
(22,871 posts)The republicans are painting themselves into a corner with this constant negativity,I think we benefit from it.
FSogol
(45,488 posts)Newt was (and always is) wrong. The repubs learned nothing and are repeating their old mistakes.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)Consequently, they are the ones who must make it look like the shit storm had a useful purpose.
And they've found that in promoting the non-defense spending cuts as necessary, as in "you miserable 47% need to eat your brocolli!"
ieoeja
(9,748 posts)Blecht
(3,803 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,577 posts)with a conservative 'all things democratic/liberal are bad' message the population of Average Personville views us as monsters..........