Elections and Economic Crack Whores

[Ozymanithrax]

The question was asked, why did Republicans get to screw the world for eight years and it only took 18 months for Republicans, Independents, and Democrats to blame Democrats.

Look at the record. Actually, voters rewarded Republicans for 6 years straight...

The electorate only fell out of a rewarding mood in 2006 when the first real signs of economic discontent made the voters uncomfortable. Ain't no sunshine when you crash.

I don't think it is memory. I think the electorate are Economic Crack Whores.

That's all of us.

I think the average voter doesn't give a damn as long as they have the illusion of good times. If Democrats created an economic bubble that made people more secure, we would be sitting pretty here. For five minutes in heaven we will take five years in hell. Republicans created bubble economies to create an illusion, short term gain for massive long term loss. The electorate has become Economic Crack Whores, requiring the bubble drug that makes them feel good. If the drug is not forthcoming, they rebel and elect the other side, Democrats in 2006, now Republicans.

I suspect that Republicans are planning the next big bubble that will bring big profits to a few and provide a short-term illusion that all is well needed by a Crack Whore Electorate. Think of it, those well dressed Republican's, standing on corners, peddling economic wellbeing in little bubbles, and asking in return just a little fellatio, a mild cunnilingus, or maybe a violent ripping rape. Whatever the electorate wants, the Republican Bubble Economy dealer will sell it to them...

...for a price.

And the electorate will pay it.

***Cross Posted at EclecticWriter***

[pansypoo53219]

1. zombie reagan lives.

reagan democrats still can't see how they got totally screwed by their tax cutting desires. plus teevee is all about bling and easy credit gave it to them.

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Bread and Circuses have their place...

in our cultural addiction.

[Dawson Leery]

3. An argument for a McCain victory in 2008.

With McCain:
There would have been no 'firewall' to prevent or hold back a depression.
Perhaps that was needed. A true generational struggle. Just as as occurred in the 1930's. The people remembered the
horrors of those times for 50 years before putting in Reagan.

I would prefer to avoid such an exacting replay of history, but perhaps only then would the people realize
the need for rules, regulations, and a proper welfare state. It worked last time.

In 2012, when the Democrats won, a massive populist push would have forced the hand of our elected officials to take proper action.
In addition, there would be a good chance that the Democrats would have had massive majorities Senate, enough to overcome the bluedogs and GOP.

Jimmy Carter asked the nation to change it's ways. He was booted for office for asking something of the people. Reagan and his successors gave
Americans an 'endless' credit card. Cheap labor in asia and mexico provided Americans with 'cheap' goods. A producing economic became a consuming economy. To substitute for low wages, Americans were given (what appeared at the time) cheap debt. That debt has come due, and the debt is not cheap.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. I think McCain would have saved the banks...

Whether we like it or not, they are the center of modern economic consumerism. If he had let them fail and let GM fail it would have been much worse. My grandparents and parents were deeply scarred by the Depression. It is not a type of human misery we should revisit even if we think it would lead to something better. The future can not be predicted. But we had FDR who saved Capitalism from it's excesses.

We are paying for Reaganomics and have been drowned in trickle down. We are looking more and more like the old Soviet Union before it collapsed.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Consumerism leads to this