As predicted, the election of Obama definitely lit the keg the right-wing's been sitting on for some time.
As recent years have proven, everything has a saturation point. Of course, ideologues and deniers always leave themselves out of that possibility, out of the natural order of things. They deny climate is capable of change by human influence, that morality is dictated from within not from "above", that their zillionaire heroes are anything but the Ayn Randian frauds that are bent from greed and delusions of immortality.
Lacking actual creative imaginations (but mistakenly thinking "shrewd deception" is the same thing), the right-wing corporate machine may have bought up all the gullible Tea Party's concerns and transmogrified them with craven corporate cant but they are at sea when it comes to doing as much with a spreading sense among the citizenry that their days of seeming omnipotent influence may be numbered. They'll send their media narcs to infiltrate and coerce, to terrorize and threaten, but history (another item the corporate creeps have tried to buy up and re-brand) has shown again and again that when roused, truly roused, the citizenry becomes a swelling, sweeping movement, imperfect but impassioned, motivated by inalienable rights and the stark hypocrisy of those who would yoke the people in misery while they themselves profit.
You can smell the right-wing flop-sweat as their presidential candidates resemble a roomful of low-rent talent show contestants, their policies as transparently heinous as the paid dimwits who espouse them. They just hate "reg'lar" people, hence they hate this new movement. They even loathe the Tea Party, no doubt deriding them under their breaths at swanky cocktail parties and no-press-allowed benefits.
And the bullies will fight hard now, rolling everything out in advance of what could be their last moments of power, should they lose the next election. The shit sluices will be thrown open and the Obama-aimed invective will flow.
So get ready, folks. Since they own the airwaves, the revolution may not be televised. But when have revolutions ever had to be in order to triumph?
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'Nuff said.
Also loved the title of this article--I own 4 versions of People Get Ready--figures, huh?
The Right may hate Obama and accuse him of being a socialist no matter how many free trade deals or patent reform favors he provides for his corporate handlers and funders. Doesn't matter how much he expands and continues Bush policy --he is, same as the Right, still on the side of the 1%.
I like to Google "Steven Weber Huffington Post". Up pops his "GOP:RIP" blog of April 11, 2009. Wishful thinking on his part. But he wasn't much of a prognosticator then, was he? Elections of 2010, anyone?
You're pointing to those buyer's remorse examples, as something that supposedly shows Steven was only engaging in "wishful thinking?"
In every state where the Repubs took the majority, they've ignored their "Jobs" election promises. Instead, they proceeded to cut jobs and attack worker's rights.
They focused on attacking women's rights, with anti-abortion legislation taking precedence over the deplorable economic situations in their respective states.
Anti-union legislation. Laying off government workers. Slashing pay and benefits to those workers who remained. So much for their promise to create jobs.
And now the folks in those states and across this nation have said ENOUGH!
Honestly, you're not really trying to beat that old "liberal media" dead horse here, after the MSM all but ignored the Wisconsin-tens-of thousands-month-long-protests, while chasing after 100 tea baggers in DC, are you?
These new protests were initially ignored as well, but they're not going to be one day bagger affairs. The MSM now has to pay attention, because these protests are only going to get bigger and stronger.
Why? Because the greed of a handful, cannot long sustain it's attack on millions of people. Cannot keep them homeless and jobless without a fight. Cannot expect today's youth to settle for only minimum wage, while the wealthiest 1% wallow in obscene profits and bloated bonuses given for punishing the middle class and the poor.
I'd hoped your absence from Steven's blog meant reflection. I guess not.
I blame the hick that was in office from 2000 to 2008 and his GOP buddies 100% for giving Wall Street the segway to be so destructive and corrupt.
They always say a bridge can be brought down in seconds after has taken many years to first put it there.
Obama wins the next election and he will be working those 4 years to rebuild as well. So too will the elected (Democrat) official who takes office afterward. There is no quick fix for this and the best way to keep moving in a positive direction is to keep the GOP/Teabag out of the POTUS position!!!! This country F'd up during the last mid-term election with this "we just want balance" BS that derailed actual positive change from happening. Government is now a stalemate when it could have been our most direct route to recovery!
I am the 99% who wants what was promised. CHANGE!!!
Start by getting the money out of politics followed by every GOP and Teabag good ole boy.
the tea party doesn't want to deny climate change. they only want to deny us.
the tea party isn't against anything in it's own right. they are only against us.
so if the democrats want to get anything done or undone, then they just need to publicly support anything the tea party supports, and oppose whatever it opposes. the tea party will reverse itself accordingly.
Did you not see the Koch Brother's bussed-in baggers, who arrived in Wisconsin at the height of those protests back in March? Baggers trying desperately to instigate a riot with their open mocking of those crowds?
But the Wisconsin PEACEFUL protesters didn't take the bait, and the bussed in baggers slinked off. Apparently the Kochs were too stingy to pay for a sustained counter-protest.
I've never seen anyone question the bagger's right to protest. The question has always been their motivation, and the lack of reality surrounding their "issues."