We're reading everywhere about Republicans returning to core principles of "small government" and "self-reliance." I hope to hell this is exactly what they do. In a time of (potential) global economic meltdown, I hope the Republicans return to their blame-the-victim ways.
I want to hear them tell the woman who was laid-off from her job that it's her fault that her company couldn't get a short-term loan to make payroll. I want them to keep decrying unemployment benefits. I want them to keep upholding Wal-Mart jobs and E-Bay profits as the solution to all our problems.
I want them to tell the family that is losing its home that it is their fault and they will have to make do. No "government handouts" for them, they would only destroy their will to achieve.
I hope that the 47 million or so people that will have brand-new government-backed health insurance keep hearing the GOP message that this is a horrible thing, and, worse yet, socialism!
In a time when people will be flocking to colleges and universities, I want the GOP voting against Pell Grants and touting the private sector loan system, which will be broken and unworkable, but better than the government paying someone to become a more productive citizen.
Speaking of education, I read somewhere (sorry), that given the huge number of young people that voted for Obama, it was time for the wingnuts to really crack down on the Marxist professors. Oh please, please do. Because, again, in a time of global financial panic, what people will want to hear about is the guy who got an F on his term paper because he was supposed to write about the causes of the Holocaust, but instead chose to write about the holocaust that is abortion.
Somehow, these crazy mofos have it in their head that people voted for Obama because McCain ran as a liberal. Please, let them return to core principles. (For now) The people have caught on and I believe that the words solidarity and brotherhood are about to have a rebirth.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
5 comments:
for the guy who got an F on his term paper - he should be brought into the head of department's office, and given a new assignment on 'History of Genocide X' and write about how his hateful bigot of an older brother was sent to prison for, e.g., attacking an abortion clinic, but who has been reading literature on women's rights and tolerance in prison and reneges on his past beliefs... you can see where I'm going with this.
actually, I have a professor from Boston lecturing on Genocide & Int'l Community; I doubt he's Marxist, but he's probably an Obama-supporter. one of the best lecturers I have at the moment.
AM I reading correctly that Measure 64 has failed?
yes.
'funny, i'm between planes in SF, having just read the long aside about the "liberal" also-rans in the 1968 GOP race - Romney, Lindsey, and "Rocky".
i will keep watching david brooks, reihan salaam (sp?) et. al for signs of a republican re-branding... but like Uncle, i hope we keep hearing the same old shite from the Right, who seem to've finally been discredited.
is 'reaganism' over?
True conservatism has never been tried, my friends. It cannot fail - it can only be failed.
Post a Comment