Lest there be any shred of doubt remaining

[frogcycle]

We of the middle class, as well as those less fortunate, are losing the war.

Yes, we elected some people two years ago, and some more a month ago. But the anti-American gang of Oligarchs has such a toehold, and is so intransigent, that they will probably succeed in destroying what little is left of the US Government and the US economy in the remaining days until they get evicted from their illegal occupation of the White House. And even then there is a well-entrenched insurgency in the US Senate that will continue to block any and all progressive efforts, while systematically savaging labor unions, the environment, the elderly, anything that is not to their standards of nobility*. They'll fight Obama's appointments, conduct a 24x7 smear campaigh that will make travelgate look like a picnic, block legislation, demand "compromise" that is actually "do it their way or go fuck yourself."

We serfs will be wearing sackcloth before too long. Because we are the frog in the boiling water. We failed to jump as it heated up, and now we're cooked.

I honestly believe we are looking at a need for insurrection - not violence, but the sort of thing Lech Walesa led in Poland, to stop it. And I don't see that happening. All those auto workers in the south working for Nissan, Toyota, et al aren't going to bat for their brethren in Mi, Oh, In, etc.

Life is tough - then you die.




* as in the British peerage system - dukes and earls, dontcha know.

[pinto]

1. Not sure about that. I favor not counting the chickens until they come home to roost.

The Repubs may have really done themselves in, at least for the short term, by trying to stymie loans to such big, basic employers.

I think some loan package will happen to stave off a bankruptcy, the Repubs will get the flack for stalling it and pay at the ballot box. Outside of the die hard ideologue voters, that is. What were once called Reagan Democrats may well abandon state Republican candidates in House/Senate races.

:shrug:

[frogcycle]

2. Maurquis of Queensbury isn't in play here

They don't care about flack. They'll circle the wagons and find a way to cling to their 41-count, if that's even an issue after two years. More likely they'll have so throttled any efforts to reverse the damage that there will be hoards ready to cast their lot with them again. And if they do fade, they'll scratch and claw and destroy whatever they can on the way out. Repairing an economy and rebuilding a middle class is a whole lot harder than destroying it.

[pinto]

3. It's going to be an interesting 2 - 4 years. I think the Repubs are loosing

a majority within their own party, at the state level i.e. in the Goldwater debacle.

Extremism is self limiting by its nature, in my opinion. It may move their party in elections, at times, as we've seen. Yet the end result is that it fails on some broad issue, and the party is marginalized as a whole. They may well "re-brand" themselves down the road, if they choose to continue favoring perception over substance, into some bright new shiny public relations scheme. They may re-emerge as the limited government/limited interventionist advocates of the past (a long shot, in my view). Or, something else.

I think the next Congressional races will be well worth watching.