Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Vote Here
I have just about had it with the Democratic Party. We had better get ready for a very tough two years or more. With Teabagger wins in the House of Representatives, and a razor thin Senate Majority, Democrats had better wake up and smell the napalm.
The Republican Majority in the House is going to devastate the country. The Boner has already said they plan to cut government, which means social programs are going to disappear. Medicare - pah -gone private, Social Security - pah- gone private, VA health and benefits - pah- gone private, Department of Education, - pah - eliminated. They are going to take the country apart piece by piece and then take the pieces apart and crush them under the fascist boots they all march lockstep in.
Our only hope this cycle was for the Senate to remain blue, but Reid is already talking compromise. When are they going to get it through their heads? The right-wing has no interest in anything the Democrats suggest or want. They want to destroy this country, destroy the President, destroy the middle class, so they, the super rich, can rule and the rest of us may as well be slaves.
We Democrats have been saying for years, that if the Politicians on our side of the aisle would stand up for us, we'd have their backs. We would see to it that they got elected again and again, if they had the guts and determination to do something to benefit the country. But it's like they're Charlie Brown and we're Lucy, holding the football. They just don't trust us. What they don't understand is we, the base, know what we're up against. We hear the way the right-wing and Teabaggers lie and trick their followers and foment hatred, anger, and murderous intent, among the faithful. We see the Christofascists with their misspelled signs and their wild eyes, and their ugly, intolerant ideas and attitudes. We're fighting for our very lives here, and yet the Dems in the Senate and the President want to compromise.
While on the the right, they say, “Compromise? We don't need no stinking compromise.”
That's why I've just about had it. We were lucky in California that Meg “Moneybags” Whitman and Carly “Outsource 'em” Fiorina both spent a great deal of their personal fortunes and still lost their respective races. Meg spent a whopping 161 Million dollars of her own money on her disastrous campaign. She started mean and she started early with the attack ads, and Jerry Brown was silent at first. The Jerry stepped up, ran ads that touted his accomplishments and what he planned to do for the state, and even showed an ad that showed Whitman saying she moved her company E-bay to California 30 years ago because the state was so “business friendly”. Thirty years ago, the governor was Jerry Brown.
Fiorina was a little more frugal spending a little over 3 million of her own and getting 4.9 million from the Chamber of Commerce. This isn't your local C of C, or even her local C of C, this is the American Chamber of Commerce, which has pumped a lot of money into Republican coffers this year. Despite the fact that most of that money is from foreign sources. She was defeated because Barbara Boxer pointed out that Fiorina had laid off 30,000 Californians and outsourced their jobs to China and India and a few other countries, and driven Hewlett Packard into the ground. That and the fact that her campaign photos showed a rather glassy-eyed Carly smiling out at the camera. It was creepy.
But back to the national scene...
Over the next two years, America as we have known it will cease to exist. Some will say it hasn't really been the same since Reagan took over, and it hasn't, but this will be worse, much worse. And the Democrats have only themselves to blame. Nothing they have done has been enough. Oh, sure, they accomplished a lot and it was going to take a generation at least to undo the damage wrought in the last ten years, but now they've lost more time and the power to do something. They let us down. They didn't fight, they didn't tell the President, “We've tried it your way, now it's time to do it our way,” and crush the opposition.
Partisan Politics is all there is anymore. It's here to stay. But I don't know if I am.
I hear New Zealand is nice this time of year.
