Their children are not the same as our children

[angrycarpenter]

I have been closely watching the stimulus fight in Washington. The Republicans are showing their true colors in that rather than helping the working person of our country they are trying to protect conservative policies from being shown to be utter failures while trying to act like they are thinking about us.

When they complain about passing a debt on to our children and grandchildren they don't mean "our" children but their children. The ones who will go on to be tomorrow's capitalists and outsourcers. Tomorrow's bosses who will be the users or third world labor. The people who will attempt to make slaves of our children and grandchildren.

I can't blame them for being scared. Their whole world view is built on making it easier for rich people to do whatever they want to do to us. They have no intention of letting their privileged offspring live in world where there is something even approaching a level playing field.

They have no concern for "our" children, they showed that as clear as glass when they voted against expanding health coverage for children. They nearly always vote against any additional funding for education. They let our nation's food safety slip to the point that we routinely feed our children poison without even knowing it.

The generation of the next twenty years will not remember the lessons learned from our mid century fight against totalitarianism. They will have to learn all over again how tomorrow's Hitlers and Stalins use ignorance and fear to gain control. Those Republicans are trying to lay the ground work for their spawn to be the ones to wield the iron fist against our children. When they talk of protecting our children they are talking of defending the status quo into the next generation when maybe, just maybe, their children will have an easier time becoming our absolute masters.

I am getting older now. I might have another 20 or 25 years. Will I live to see our children continue on to defend themselves from tyranny or will I live to see the republican's hellspawn start up the soylent green factories? Sometimes when I see just a couple of republicans sabotage an entire Democratic majority in congress, I wonder.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

1. The nepotism in politics is revolting. And you are right

they don't give a rat's ass about the children of their constituents. We are fighting a war of survival for resources that will become more and more evident
in the next decade. In reality they are terrified of the masses.

[Greyhound]

9. It's become epidemic throughout the nation, I see it literally everywhere now.

it was always here, the bosses kid running a department is a cliche, but anymore it has become the rule.

[annabanana]

2. I think you're onto something there ac . .

I had not thought of it before, but the spawn of the oligarchy MUST inheret the reins of power. There is no evidence that they are in any position to EARN them . .

[Jackpine Radical]

5. GWB is a prime example.

I also think of the British military of the 1700's, where the younger children of the nobility were given commissions of high rank, even though they were witless droolers for the most part. The British were lucky that they were only fighting wars against weak, ragtag colonials for the most part in that era.

[DCKit]

10. Your military example really hits the mark....

Their incompetence in business only results in economic fatalities. Either way, "we" are no more than cannon fodder.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. I think about that stuff too.

My first thought is that too many of the Democrats are along for the ride in the Republican boat, and we can both pretty much name who I'm talking about.

It is said--and I believe it--that FDR "saved" America from a Communist revolution by about 1937. Had there been no FDR, the Abraham Lincoln Brigade would have stayed here and fought instead of going to Spain. And they would have been joined by about a million WWI survivors. For that matter, the Spanish-American War vets were then about as old as I am now, and I can still shoot a rifle pretty well.

If the Republicans (I think of the French Republic, the Republican forces in Spain, etc. and laugh at the use of the name by these clowns)--as I say, if the "Republicans" continue their shortsighted, destructive, narcissistic games and block a comprehensive reform program, I think they will stand a good chance of triggering the revolution we didn't have in 1937. We're getting pretty damned close to needing it, if we can't effect big changes very soon.

[angrycarpenter]

4. I think the next ten or fifteen years will be very tense.

The children of today's conservatives will grow up steeped in the propaganda of the rich as the heaven ordained masters of the earth. I guess that manifest destiny will never go away but will be continually reborn under different names.

[jedr]

6. Each week when I phone my 88yr old father;

I tell him " there's only so much they can steal and they just about have it all". The greedy bast*rds don't understand that when they destroy the middle class, they destroy themselves. What good is money when there is no economy in which to use it. The French found this out in the late 1700's.....could this be our fate?

[lostnfound]

7. The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera.

[angrycarpenter]

8. Very profound

I will remember that.