This Country May Not Survive Another Republican Rule

It's a an old but true cliche: "The more things change, the more they stay the same".  Those of us old enough to have been in these United States pre the George W. Bush regime know conservatives have been attempting to dismantle the New Deal and anything in the way of "their free market ideals" for decades.  And they will use any means possible, (and anyone who temporarily serves this purpose), to complete their single minded task.  This includes the Christian right (whatever you may be calling yourselves these days), the "right to lifers", the pro gun lobby, the racists and the religious and sexual orientation bigots, etc..  If a particular issue can be used like a shiny trinket to make you turn away from the real issues that do affect what we now (correctly) refer to as The 99% it will be, time after time.  Because until now (perhaps), this has worked superbly.  I am happy to see the Occupy Wall Street movement finally come to being.  I just wish it had started just a little earlier (like a least a decade ago when Wabya was lying us into wars and getting elected without being able to complete a coherent sentence).  This may have been going on for decades,   [dismantling of the New Deal], but Bush sure put it into supersonic overdrive.  He and his cohorts messed up this country like a bunch of freshmen college drunks, bent on burning down the whole freshmen dorm on a dare.  Only these weren't college kids, these were leaders of the most powerful country on earth. And they weren't burning down a single campus dorm but a whole country.  They destroyed our financial system. They destroyed our environment and allowed an infrastructure which had been envied worldwide to become close to obsolete.  They destroyed the reputation of the world's once most respected nation.  They destroyed our public education system.  They tore through every thing they could get their greedy, powerful hands into. They took away some of our very constitutional rights, in the guise of national security.  And they are all very wealthy now thank you.  Thousands of men and women died in that war they lied us into.  Many more were sent home injured.  Bush nor any of his Republican cronies probably can't name even one of them.  Thousands and thousands more innocent Iraqi civilians died.  When Bush left office one American city had been almost completely destroyed. Other cities and towns are left crumbling.  Bridges are literally falling, mines are collapsing and oil pipes are bursting, devastating our Gulf and it's wildlife.  States no longer have the financial resources to help them if they wanted. So although I wish OWS might have started much sooner at least someone is finally speaking up.  Cleaning up decades of debris, especially all the financial debris, won't be easy and it will take time.  It will be messy.  We've already seen that.  Their will be those who will fight us 99%', tooth and nail for nothing but another buck off our back.  Fighting will mean never giving up and never getting so comfortable as to allow this to happen again.  We must fight the way they fought us only without the dirty tricks of the Karl Roves.  We must fight politically. From the school boards to the White House, we must elect REAL DEMOCRATS.  But like President Obama has learned we must learn, some will use every dirty evil trick conceived of to fight even the smallest steps we may make.  And finally, we can not win fighting each other.  We may not agree on everything and we certainly won't agree on every way to get there.  But I truly believe this country cannot survive another Republican rule.  So we better get it together or perish together.

Must-Read Krugman: GOP is Now “Aggressively Anti-Science, Indeed Anti-Knowledge,” Which Should “Terrify Us.”

This is a must read for anyone in the least bit concerned, not only about the United States, but for the world we all must live on. My greatest fear is those ,(myself included), Progressives not entirely satisfied with President Obama's job performance will use the 2012 election to voice our displeasure. The problem is not that Progressives fail to vote Democrat when they are unhappy with the Democratic party as a whole but that we fail to energize those who won't necessarily show up at the poles without our work and encouragement. The midterm elections in 2010 are just a tiny example of what Republicans will do to the whole country if given another proverbial bite of the apple. Ohio, Michagin, Wisconsin, Florida, etc... are all suffering terribly due to Republican control. Women's rights, Union rights, unemployment and widespread corruption have already been seen in all of these GOP held states. Now imagine our country subjected to the same type of abuses 1ooo times over. Imagine what will become of our own planet if Republicans are allowed to ravage what's left of it's natural resources while completely denying the effects humans create to climate change. I worry my own children and their future children trying to survive in a world we have created unlivable through our own greed, denial and ignorance. President Obama and the Democratic party may not be perfect but it is our job to continue to push them in to action or we will all face devastating consequences. George W. Bush and his Republican cronies pretend they have something new to offer Americans but the truth is obvious. They came very close to completely destroying this country in every way possible and now in reality they are only asking us for a chance to finish the job.

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Anthony Weiner - Democrats Who Fight - Standing up for what we believe

Remember this guy?



As Anthony Weiner so perfectly explained about our (at times overly) cerebral, noble and extremely fair party, "Democrats have a tendency to bring library books to a knife fight".  I would never want Democrats to behave like Republicans or, god forbid, those crazy Teabaggers, but there is a time to stand up to bullies. In reality they are nothing but cowards, something we all learned in kindergarten the first time we made one cry with just one push; which is why they only go after the little guy, i.e. the unemployed, the uninsured, kids on free lunch programs, the 9/11 first responders, etc. Even Atticus Finch would have had it with these guys!

Congressman Weiner has recently started his own blog, for those of us frustrated with Democrats putting up with the shamelessness and hypocrisy of the Republican party. Please check it out!

Anthony Weiner - Democrats Who Fight - Standing up for what we believe