Looks like the Talking-Point Marching Orders have been sent and received. It's gonna be Class Warfare & Race-Baiting for the Democrats in 2012. The Party Platform has now been set. I know it's despicable, but you better get used to it. Because it's gonna get a whole lot worse the closer we get to November. So much for that President who was gonna unite the People. Pretty cool 'Hope & Change' huh?
I feel sorry for you and other conservatives.
The GOP leads your right to where they want you to go, then they abandon you...as well as the rest of middle class Americans in favor of their wealthy contributors. And you seem oblivious to it.
Yeah, they get you all worked up about social issues like abortion, or gay rights, or the so-called decline of the culture. And you march to the polls with your outrage, and your fears.
Then, what happens when the GOP takes over the leadership of the country like under Reagan and Bush 43? Get any action on any of those things? Overwhelmingly not.
But you get deregulation by the bushel.
The family farmers and ranchers lose out to agribusiness.
Main street loses out to Walmart.
American jobs get shipped overseas or south of the border.
Wages get slashed.
Benefits get cut.
Job security is gone.
The tax rates of the wealthy are lowered again, and again.
And, of course, we get all kinds of fraud that never seems to get caught until the house of cards is already falling. I wonder how that happens.
Yup, the S&L scandal, Enron, Arthur Anderson, MCI/Worldcom, Qwest, Tyco International, Health South Corporation, Adelphia, Lehman Bros, Wall Street Banks, Rating agencies, AIG, Bernie Madoff, and a host of lesser known ones.
Yeah, individual investors, pension funds, employees, families, and of course, the taxpayers ALL take a bath.
But what do we hear now on the eve of another election? We hear talk about how we need LESS regulation! And any complaints are met with shouts of class warfare?
You and other middle class conservatives are men and women who have been sacrificed on the altar of economic darwinism for years, just like the rest of us. The powerful interests in this and other countries (otherwise known as the big economic winners) are going to continue to do what they've been doing for years. But for some reason that I can't fathom, you don't see it. Not only that, you're helping the forces that are undercutting your (our) futures. That's right. When they yell class warfare, I'll be damned if YOU don't yell class warfare too. You mock the OWS movement which just so happens to be fighting a fledgling rear guard action that's meant to try to stop the bleeding of your economic blood as well as theirs, but you don't even realize it.
A hundred years ago, the railroads economically screwed the American farmer because of their monopolistic power and political clout. Today, powerful wealthy men are stripping away the American dream because they place importance on record profits and not people, or communities...or countries.
And what are you doing? You're out there digging your own economic graves by supporting the very people who are going to sell us all down the river eventually.
It's a funny thing about betrayal. Most people don't see it until the damage is done. Sure wish you guys would wake up because there's still time to prevent it from happening. But not if they manage to keep us distracted by other issues, and hence, divided.