AuH20
10-26-2010, 01:07 PM
Music to my ears. Hmmm. Did they really think we'd sit in the shadows and let them get away this?;)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/26/913754/-2010-the-Nihilism-Election
From Webster: Nihilism: a doctrine that denies moral principles and social obligations. That is the tea party, (the far right wing of the republican party) and they make no apologies or excuses for it.
This is an ideology bent on destruction, despite it's claimed desire to "take our country back", from "socialism, nazism, communism, and Obama". Their emerging leaders (Rand Paul, etc.) are not even extremist 'conservatives', they are radical, anti government revolutionaries, who, (whether they know it or not), are for a corporate/plutocratic takeover of America, where the only freedom will be the freedom to starve, (unless they put a bounty on the unemployed, then there will be no freedom from corporate control).
It's torture listening to these maniacs, and the idea of them endlessly 'in the news' as elected representatives is enough to raise your gag reflex. That there is a significant part of the voting public, resulting in local majorities or pluralities, for these monsters, is a disaster, and a symptom of a political system in meltdown. The only thing saving us so far, is that the right has no truly charismatic leaders, and with the real shapers of RW opinion (Koch brothers, et. al.) staying in deep shadow, the whole thing might collapse, drown in it's own bile. But surely not soon enough. I won't make direct comparisons with Germany in 1933 or even Cuba in 1949, (yes '49) but they can be made, it may take a generation to seal (not heal) the current rifts in the political system, and it won't be fun.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/10/26/913754/-2010-the-Nihilism-Election
From Webster: Nihilism: a doctrine that denies moral principles and social obligations. That is the tea party, (the far right wing of the republican party) and they make no apologies or excuses for it.
This is an ideology bent on destruction, despite it's claimed desire to "take our country back", from "socialism, nazism, communism, and Obama". Their emerging leaders (Rand Paul, etc.) are not even extremist 'conservatives', they are radical, anti government revolutionaries, who, (whether they know it or not), are for a corporate/plutocratic takeover of America, where the only freedom will be the freedom to starve, (unless they put a bounty on the unemployed, then there will be no freedom from corporate control).
It's torture listening to these maniacs, and the idea of them endlessly 'in the news' as elected representatives is enough to raise your gag reflex. That there is a significant part of the voting public, resulting in local majorities or pluralities, for these monsters, is a disaster, and a symptom of a political system in meltdown. The only thing saving us so far, is that the right has no truly charismatic leaders, and with the real shapers of RW opinion (Koch brothers, et. al.) staying in deep shadow, the whole thing might collapse, drown in it's own bile. But surely not soon enough. I won't make direct comparisons with Germany in 1933 or even Cuba in 1949, (yes '49) but they can be made, it may take a generation to seal (not heal) the current rifts in the political system, and it won't be fun.