Texas is going to be the end of The United States | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 hidden)
If the cons win (none / 0)
Whether it's Texas or some other ass, if we let the cons win, we have it coming.

Certainly the odds are massively stacked against us with:
* Rabid right wing media/propaganda/stinktank machine
* Cowardly lions pretending to be liberal politicians that seem incapable of making their case
* A degraded k-12 education system
* Constant attack on higher education to root out liberals
* Citizens spooked by McCarthyism and Cheneyism
* General lethargy and laziness - let the other guy do it
* Right shifting political center that just pumps up the cons to shift it further
* Corporatism, an infection that is still well below almost everyone's radar.

It seems as if things are turning around a little bit now as politicians get more bold and feel less inhibited about hiding their total sellout to big business. And more people are getting news from the internet as old media (except tv) fails from their own incompetence.

People seem fed up but don't know what to do. Just voting doesn't quite cut it anymore so now what? Tea party? Cynicism?

by toosinbeymen on 03/14/2010 02:24:57 PM EST

All of those are correct, except... (none / 0)

...that it is "turning around".  New Supreme Court ruling removing 100 years of Campaign Finance regulations, new even-more-crazy militia movements (including the Tea Party) spreading even more dangerous, stupid rhetoric than has been seen in the mainstream in decades, and the death of the Democratic Party as something we could look to to _maybe_ balance the scales a bit.  We had our one last chance, and it was Obama and the huge Democratic majorities and the huge youth activism movement, and it's all gone now.  We got nothing, and we also lost the optimism that there really is a candidate out there who is working for us.

Nothing has turned around;  we're just savvier about politics.  Things continue to get worse, and the crises looming over our near future continue to get more dire. 

by Milltycoon on 03/14/2010 03:52:18 PM EST

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Texas is going to be the end of The United States | 8 comments (8 topical, 0 hidden)