Earlier this evening, Frank Schaeffer in his latest blog posting, predicted this moment.
Being the eternal pessimist, I was surprised when it happened. The right-wing authoritarians, all 212 of them, have failed to block the correction of America’s biggest human rights violation.
Those right-wing authoritarians (RWA), in both parties, who were raised in a fear-based, strict-father worldview environment and who believe the individual is entirely responsible for their situation are a real problem for this country – just as the Loyalists were a couple of hundred years ago. They are breaking our government, transferring our vital common wealth to the extremely rich with tax cuts for the wealthy and privateering, and taking us back to the type of government that we rebelled against in the late 1700s.
It’s amazing to me that they were finally beaten tonight. They have an unsurpassed communication/misinformation machine that has been in high gear for a long time trying to kill health care reform, and there has been little effective response to it.
I’m amazed at the amount of snail mail with its push polls and false issues that comes to our home for the one Republican who lives here and the lack of snail mail for the rest of us. They know how to reach and manipulate their base and get them to tell their leaders, through those polls, what the leaders want to hear so they can claim they speak for America.
They lost the 2008 election by a large margin. Now, they have been beaten, barely, on health care. Health care for those not like the RWAs, but the tens of thousand who die each year due to lack of health care, the hundreds of thousands who must declare bankruptcy due to catastrophic health issues that were not of their making and those millions who could only get health care from the emergency room, which we all pay for.
My thanks to all those who made it possible!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now for my prediction. We’ve won this battle, but the bigger struggle goes on and will only get more heated/violent as the right-wing becomes more aggressive. Our domestic terrorists are a much more real threat to this country than the international ones.
Like I said – the eternal pessimist.
Interesting.I was looking for the source a John Adams Quote. No luck but google kicked up your web site. I didn’t look much beyond a couple of pages. But site is poorly organized and seems prone to rambling. I may get back and try to decipher your points of view.
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Yes, indeed, domestic terrorists are a huge threat. I keep hoping that Glenn Beck will figuratively hang himself – he may have started that process by attacking Christian social justice activists. And he may finish it off by likening the passage of the health “reform” bill (which Eisenhower Republicans would embrace enthusiastically) to Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and the Hindenberg. He is plainly insane.
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The health “reform” is badly flawed and one that Eisenhower Republicans would fervently embrace. It is a measure of how far to the right this country has lurched in the succeeding decades that this bill is condemned as being a piece of communist or socialist legislation. Domestic terrorists indeed – what do you think of the bricks being thrown through the windows of Democratic legislators’ offices and homes? The propane line to the gas grill belonging to Tom Periello’s brother being cut? When will reasonable Americans ask for criminal charges to be filed against the hate-mongers??
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