Kell and I, within 2 months of Obama being in office, noticed this. I believe even before he was inaugurated we had joked around along the lines that the Repubs would make his life an extra special hell...over and above the normal Capitol Hill ideological hazing. Man, we should of kept our mouths shut.
I wondered how far they would go, how dismal they'd let the landscape become (and when I say this, it becomes convoluted with the addition of Dem's who won't speak up and Blue Dogs who love their campaign fund donations as much as the Repubs) and it's becoming more and more apparent that the suffering and hardship of 10's and 10's of millions of Americans are inconsequential...when it comes to making sure Obama is a one term President. They must rid the stink of him from the hallowed grounds of political divide.
I know it's never as simple as it seems and that posturing is always part of our fucked up political process...but this is just fuck'in scary. We're being held hostage against the ethereal notion that, "once he's gone, things can get back to normal, that we no longer need to be punished for our transgressions." But it will only get worse. What little resistance there is against Corps. will be completely gone in a Repub led Executive Office, Senate and House. We'll be eaten alive for a buck.
I swear to all that is holy, if it weren't for my checkered past, I'd run for congress and be Alan Grayson on steroids.
here's a good place for this..
http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/06/chris-hedges-global-revolution-must-begin-in-america/it's about 20 mins.. I haven't been able to watch it all yet, but the snippet is pretty interesting..
His conclusions are chilling, but not entirely hopeless.
“We will have to take care of ourselves,” he wrote. “We will have to rapidly create small, monastic communities where we can sustain and feed ourselves. It will be up to us to keep alive the intellectual, moral and cultural values the corporate state has attempted to snuff out. It is either that or become drones and serfs in a global corporate dystopia. It is not much of a choice. But at least we still have one.”
sounds about right IMO.. The disgust of the election of Obama ushered in this new kind of conservative.. the kind that will side with corporations as long as it means an end to this country and it's Black (D) President...This is a new type of Pol. Before their priorities were self,party country.. today it's all corp,party,self and we really don't care about the country.. They've said they have to destroy it to rebuild it to their wishes, they are only making that happen a lot faster than it would had had a white man been elected.. They were able to take that hate, turn it into fear and then use it to further their goals... they've actually turned those who loath Obama for no other reason that his skin and/or party, into their minions.. minions that actually attack teachers and firemen as the root cause of all this countries problems.. and say they are attacking them in the name of freedom and the prosperity of this country.. and scariest of all, they have them believing it all..
Michelle Bachman is their leader.. and if we're not careful, she will win on election day.. and then it's only a matter of months before that little snippet goes from fiction to daily suburban life..
don't think she'll get elected? Ask Rick Scott how easy it was..
