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SunsetDreams

(8,571 posts)
Mon Feb 6, 2012, 10:31 PM Feb 2012

(Warning)Read the (Right Wing) Label




(WARNING: prolonged exposure to corporate right-wing toxins can cause unfounded and unnatural fear and loathing of "others", decreases in income and productivity, increased wheezing due to unregulated industrial waste and a marked rise in purchases of Sansabelt Slacks®.)

The more the corporate right-wing tries to influence, cajole and otherwise force-feed its Gilded Age ideology down citizens' throats (and there will always be a malleable demographic willing to do just about anything a well-groomed authoritarian wielding id-laced rhetoric tells them) the more the body politic's natural instinct -- and it is surely a survival instinct -- rears and rejects the right's toxic message.

As is already being reported, buyer's remorse for all the crap-encrusted candidacies the corporate right-wing machine had incubated, hatched and set loose is starting to find purchase in our already dross-saturated politics/news/entertainment culture. Republicans voters are torn between two loafers in Mitt and Newt, each more irresponsible, uncaring, denuded and detestable than the other.

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So next time you ingest some hate-laced bromide peddled by the right-wing corporate liars, remain calm, get the facts and let truth be your Ipecac®.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-weber/read-the-label_b_1254376.html

This is one from September that I just found

More to the point: how is it possible, after experiencing the catastrophic results of conservative economic policy, that there’s a single American (who’s not either a Republican politician or some other member of the Top 1%) still willing to give the GOP Rx for the economy another nanosecond of consideration?

When King Solomon said that “there is nothing new under the sun,” he couldn’t possibly have done a better job at describing GOP economic policy. From the plans being offered by the illustrious ranks of Republican presidential candidates to those recently articulated by House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, their prescription is nothing but more of the same poison that crashed the American economy, blew unemployment up to historic levels, and fueled concentration of wealth not seen since the Great Depression.

The GOP Rx for the economy is ever-static and never works. Whether you’re talking decades ago or focused on today, it always consists of the same triple threat to the American people: cut taxes for the wealthy, deregulate, and privatize government along with the commons. They wrap their rhetoric up in a flag, label their plan as “job creating,” and somehow manage to sell the same warmed-over economic Vioxx time and again.

The truth of the matter is that we’ve already tried every element of the Republican plan, all to the detriment of the vast majority of Americans.


http://www.thinkersjam.com/the-gop-prescription-%E2%80%94-good-medicine-or-economic-poison/

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