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During the next four years Democrats will do anything and everything to please the rich and so will Republicans.
Their mock election was characterized by a lack of real political discussion on the key questions of war, the depression, unemployment, forced austerity and deepening attacks on the last shreds of the Bill of Rights. On all these questions both parties answered ‘me too’ without, of course, going into much detail.
Both candidates and their parties agreed to use the excuse of a defect, which they created, by giving trillions to the rich. They aim to gut entitlements like Social Security and Medicare/Medicaid.
Neither will pass laws to create socialized medicine.
Both agree to continue the wars against Arab and muslim nations and to reposition forces against China.
Neither will stop funding the ethnic cleansing campaigns of the zionists in occupied Palestine.
Both agree to continue to attack teachers unions under the guise of ‘excellence’ in education.
Neither will let up on their attack on unions because it’s the key to driving down workers wages and engorging the rich at the expense of workers. Both agreed to impose deeper cuts in social spending, sabotage any attempts to create socialized medicine.
Both will refuse to do anything meaningful to end Depression levels of unemployment.
Neither will enact real laws to limit the rampant sexual abuse of children in cult settings or measures to protect them from the violence of homelessness and poverty.
Both will continue to gut the Bill of Rights, constrict democratic discussion and both will take the velvet glove off the iron fist of repression as people wake up to reality of living in austerity.
Working people will be left out in the cold.
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The next 4 years are going to be … interesting.
On a purely clinical and detached perspective, it will be very interesting.
O is now unchained.
Look at what Clinton did in his second term. Welfare “reform”. Glass-Steagal. He would have tied to privatize SS except Lewinsky happened. Him and his good pal Newt were already for the gutting.
And now O. 2nd term. My Dog, the blood will flow. More drones, more wars, and more …
And liberals will cheer.
It’s going to be a bloodbath.
But step away, for one second, from the horror of the future. Step away from the depravity that is coming. Remove yourself from the equation. And on a purely clinical and analytical view, it will be interesting. In the most horrible ways (and one doesn’t have to imagine them, just look at O’s first term, when he was restrained by a looming election).
At work today I saw and heard so many people who were scared that Romney would win. Fear works.
I remember what Dumas said, and I totally understand.
Stick a fork in it (although she was done a long time ago).
very well put.
And if you voted for o shut up when the gutting comes.
I’m with you, Bill: there’s absolutely nothing to celebrate this morning. Somehow I think that even the Obots know their victory is hollow. The campaign was just something to distract people from their distinctly unpleasant reality for a little while, and now the sign-wavers and cheerleaders have to rejoin us in that reality.
Exactly. It was a repeat of 2008 with one big exception. The number of fools who voted for the Dims declined by roughly 10 million and the number of fools who voted Rethug declined by roughly 2 million.
I think people vote because they want change and have no, zero, zip, nada, nil historical perspective and were never given the educational tools to acquire one. They need to read Marx, Lenin and Trotsky but those are not well known authors in the curricula of US high schools and colleges. More’s the pity.
That aside, when they become enraged at the coming betrayals we should welcome them to the struggle.
As one who voted for Jill Stein, I regret that likely there will not be any serious move in Congress to impeach Barack Obama for subverting the Constitution by authorizing assassinations by night raids and by drones, with the cases of Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki as two of the best known. Killing unarmed suspects rather than capturing them, or seeking diplomatic means toward their apprehension, should be deemed a high crime not only against our Constitution but against the law of nations. The difference between legitimate responses to terrorism and terrorism itself is that only the latter seeks to kill when there is no absolute necessity to do so. If a local police department entered a building with “rules of engagement” calling on them to shoot and kill a suspect unless that person happened to be in the nude, because of the risk of a possible explosive device, etc., and followed those orders although it soon emerged after initial disinformation to the public that the suspect was in fact unnamed with no sign of such a device, then criminal homicide charges would be warranted. And if spokespeople for the police department, or indeed rather the local Office of the Mayor, explained that “it would have been very inconvenient to have a trial,” such a statement would itself indicate illicit intent. If, further, the Mayor stated in a televised interview that “anyone who thinks this suspect didn’t deserve to die should have their head examined,” as if to imply that loyalty to the Bill of Rights is constitutional insanity, then the case for impeachment would be self-evident. Sadly, with President Obama, so it is.
No such luck dude. That’s when it’ll become important for those guys to point out the stupidity of the Andrew Breightbarts of the world (wow, water is wet), blame the republicans for their obstruction, and jack off to looped video of Shakira’s ass.