Any thoughts, or are we just going to sit back and allow them to take us back two hundred years? Does we have to wait until we are forced to replay the events of 1861-1865 in order to save this country?
What have they done in Congress so far?
The Republican House budget, which will likely go through, is basically going to gut the FDA, EPA, OSHA and Dept of Agriculture to the point where they lack any real power.
And I have a feeling what they've done in Wisconsin--against unions--and in NJ--against teachers and education--is going to play out on a national scale.
The Republicans have the money, and the support of wealthy businessmen. Businessmen like the Koch Brothers are now de facto running our country, and getting what THEY want through, good of the country be damned. I feel this is basically a quiet coup of our nation.
The businessmen learned back in the 1930s that they couldn't take over America by using the military--with the failed Businessman's Coup--So they've decided a much more effective route: Finding greedy, power hungry people, bankrolling their campaigns and making them their puppets in the newly elected Republican governorships and House.
Their astroturf, populist, Tea Party campaign has also turned many uniformed, older voters to their side by using buzzwords like "DEATH PANELS" and "SOCIALISM", playing on fear and paranoia--fear of a black President, and left wing politics--to garner votes.
really, you keep talking about how reforming Social Security is a right-wing conspiracy that means the end of the world and you are going to go there?
