I think it's safe to say that not everybody in the party is bought and sold by Wall St., Chevron, and AT&T - but enough of them are that the efforts of honest, public-service minded people are buried.
There is a bright side to the Republicans furious gallop toward some kind of feudal anarchy - should they get their way, things will very rapidly get worse for most Americans. And apparently one of the reasons people don't vote to help the poor is that they are comforted by the fact that there are other people poorer than them, so they don't want to help those people and find *themselves* on the bottom. I figure if the crazies get their way, the middle class will start to disappear and more people will start to vote to help the poor, as they find themselves among them.
Unfortunately while that happens a bunch of chronically ill, elderly, and disabled people (and poor children) will probably die of avoidable causes...so it's more of a tiny dim pinprint of light in a very dark mass than a 'bright side'.
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Date: 2011-08-20 02:08 am (UTC)There is a bright side to the Republicans furious gallop toward some kind of feudal anarchy - should they get their way, things will very rapidly get worse for most Americans. And apparently one of the reasons people don't vote to help the poor is that they are comforted by the fact that there are other people poorer than them, so they don't want to help those people and find *themselves* on the bottom. I figure if the crazies get their way, the middle class will start to disappear and more people will start to vote to help the poor, as they find themselves among them.
Unfortunately while that happens a bunch of chronically ill, elderly, and disabled people (and poor children) will probably die of avoidable causes...so it's more of a tiny dim pinprint of light in a very dark mass than a 'bright side'.