The Consequences of GOP Sucess

[babylonsister]

http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/3/3/132515/5187

The Consequences of GOP Sucess

by Steven D
Thu Mar 3rd, 2011 at 01:25:15 PM EST


Well, as a once mediocre orator and former (thank god!) Vice President of these United States of America once said: " F**k yourself". That remark was aimed at Senator Patrick Leahy, but today's GOP, more extreme and ambitious than even the Bush administration, seems to have implicitly adopted it as their slogan when it comes to what they plan to do to people like you and me.

The Republicans in Congress, and in states across the country are making no bones about their agenda: they desire to kill unions and worker's rights. They desire to kill the EPA, and kill any regulation regarding worker safety, drug safety, food safety, environmental safety -- you name it. They want to destroy Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and healthcare reform with a thousand cuts until nothing is left but private accounts managed by by their buddies at Wall Street to which you are forced to contribute. They want to privatize prisons and schools.

They want an end to financial assistance to college students and their families (except football and basketball players, of course). They want to kill any investment in alternative fuels and public transportation. They desire the awarding of no-bid contracts to their "friends," i.e., the people who contributed the most to their political campaigns. Oh, and they want to make it ever more difficult, if not impossible, for innovative small businesses to compete with the corporate behemoths that dominate our political landscape. Indeed, without a middle class how can small businesses not dedicated to serving the desires of the rich survive?

In short, the goal of the New and Improved Tea Party Republican Governors and Legislators is to drive a stake through the heart of anyone who still believes he or she is a member of the middle class. As one of their own recently remarked those of us "slobs" in the middle class are a "different breed" the implication being that we are parasites on the body of corporate wealth and power rather than the collective engine of human labor and productivity that made that wealth and power possible.

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I hope this diary gave you some idea of what our our nation might devolve into should the GOP succeed with their poisonous agenda: a poorer, sicker, more crime ridden, less economically mobile society and a nastier place to live for us and for future generations. A nation that people who lived though the Great Depression would see emerging all over again. A nation without hope for young or for old.

Elections have consequences. Last election the GOP won because the base for the Democrats (and I did not like many of those Democratic candidates) was not as motivated as the base for the Tea Party Crazies. I don't know how much more damage the Republicans can do should they retain power in many states and in Congress in 2012. And God help us if Obama is defeated and a Republican bound to follow the whims of his or her craziest members assumes control of the Oval Office with majorities in the House and Senate. Because if you thought Bush, Rove and Cheney were bad, the next republican President with that kind of power would be ten times worse.

[FormerDittoHead]

1. You're forgetting that many Democrats want this too, or are unwilling to fight them.

I was originally going to write, a "No shit" reply, but the fact is that if more Democrats actually understood what you wrote, then we wouldn't have lost the House last year, and so much more.

Why vote for Democrats who are only "lite" Republicans? If Democrats agree that "the problem" is too much gov't and taxes on the wealthy "job providers" when why vote Democratic when Republicans will get THAT job done faster?

I believe, honestly, that Wisconsin COULD be our "Egypt"... or it could be our Waterloo. It will depend upon a lot of things, not the least of which Democratic politicians stepping up and BEING DEMOCRATS.

[FSogol]

2. K & R. n/t

[bvar22]

3. GOP success = Democratic Party Failure.

We can't do much about the Republican Party.
They are going to do what they are going to do.
We can't fix that.

It is past time for the Democratic Party to do a Fearless & Searching Inventory about WHERE they have failed
to provide the Leadership, Message, and Policy to steer this country in the direction that MOST of the voting public want to go.
THAT is something we can FIX.
On ISSUE after ISSUE, the Public is on our side.




"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans.
I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans."
---Paul Wellstone


"By their works you will know them."

[babylonsister]

4. kick because...I think this is scary. nt