Dear Jonathan Alter,
"He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and they in turn will care for the laboring poor."
- President Grover Cleveland
Message to Congress, March 1st, 1886
I read your latest post on keeping DeLay around and I could not agree more. I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the situation in America and I have come to the conclusion that the Republicans have spent 30 years getting to where they are today and as Democrats we must do nothing more than give them enough rope as is necessary to hang themselves. They have earned control of the Government through manipulation of emotions and simplistic reasoning and America must suffer for it before we collectively learn what we have inadvertently allowed to happen.
Utilizing raw, emotional issues relating to culture and other social constructs, they have created a divide that ignores reason and ties moderate and thoughtful Republicans to an agenda that actually accomplishes little on the social front, save maybe discord, while allowing them to serve up repackaged Voodoo Economics that encourages corruption and places the middle-class American at risk. Indeed, what IS the matter with Kansas?
As my father-in-law says, people rarely change until the pain is so great that they have no choice; at that point, the either change or perish. Those that have chosen emotion over reason and simplistic, bumper-sticker cognitive dissonance for critical thinking will indeed bear the brunt of their myopia and will then have no place to turn but to the mirror and those in charge...and it won't be the Democrats.
It's only unfortunate that all Americans will have to suffer for the other half's ignorance and selfishness.
"There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not."
- John (Giovanni) Florio
Second Frutes (1591)
"He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and they in turn will care for the laboring poor."
- President Grover Cleveland
Message to Congress, March 1st, 1886
I read your latest post on keeping DeLay around and I could not agree more. I have spent a great deal of time thinking about the situation in America and I have come to the conclusion that the Republicans have spent 30 years getting to where they are today and as Democrats we must do nothing more than give them enough rope as is necessary to hang themselves. They have earned control of the Government through manipulation of emotions and simplistic reasoning and America must suffer for it before we collectively learn what we have inadvertently allowed to happen.
Utilizing raw, emotional issues relating to culture and other social constructs, they have created a divide that ignores reason and ties moderate and thoughtful Republicans to an agenda that actually accomplishes little on the social front, save maybe discord, while allowing them to serve up repackaged Voodoo Economics that encourages corruption and places the middle-class American at risk. Indeed, what IS the matter with Kansas?
As my father-in-law says, people rarely change until the pain is so great that they have no choice; at that point, the either change or perish. Those that have chosen emotion over reason and simplistic, bumper-sticker cognitive dissonance for critical thinking will indeed bear the brunt of their myopia and will then have no place to turn but to the mirror and those in charge...and it won't be the Democrats.
It's only unfortunate that all Americans will have to suffer for the other half's ignorance and selfishness.
"There is no virtue that poverty destroyeth not."
- John (Giovanni) Florio
Second Frutes (1591)
posted by Mike at 10:13 AM
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