Is it just me...

[XanaDUer]

Or is the scariness of the RW's attempt to crush the average person getting to be worsening at a faster pace? I'm old enough to remember pre- Reagan America. I remember when the christian right's attempt to control everyone was just getting a toehold. Now it seems like the country is spiraling faster towards a complete meltdown. A major GOP contender for President is telling female rape victims to keep God's gift of a baby resulting from that rape. It's all so crazy...

[PDJane]

1. No, it's not just you.

The thieves are collapsing the house of cards, and you and I are going to be underneath it.

[MineralMan]

2. It's not just you. And it should send us all out looking for ways

to help Democrats win every possible election. There's no alternative, really.

[RobertEarl]

5. That is a priority

Getting Democrats in office everywhere.

Then we have to get on and stay on them to think first about the masses of people, the environment and our future outlook. The Republicans won't even think about what they are doing. At least our Democrats are concerned about the future.

[asjr]

3. What is really scary is this seems to be a well

coordinated effort by a great number of Republicans from governors, legislators, religionists and some media.

[XanaDUer]

4. I know!

It's like that lyric about the bottom falling out. We've got to make sure the GOP is out of power

[ellenfl]

9. in the last two elections, repubs concentrated on taking over the states.

now they're trying to take over the country from the state level. i'm beginning to think that gwb was a distraction for the take-over, running the economy into the ground as the repubs stole state elections. they ARE always calling for state's rights.

btw, i think the southern states will begin turning less white anglo-saxon, which may bode well for democracy. it may be just a matter of time . . . if we can keep the fascism from intensifying.

ellen fl

[Old and In the Way]

6. I wish it were just you.

They are accelerating their agenda and seem not to be too concerned with putting it all out in the open for everyone to see. I guess Citizen's United, gaming electronic voting, and pushing One party legislation is giving them the confidence to go public in a big way, for all to see.

It's pretty easy to see the Faustian Quid-pro-Quo bargain that's in play within the Republican Party- Religious Right give the 1%ers the keys to the government operations and the 1%ers give the Religious Right their social agenda.

[libodem]

7. Regans wetdream

A utopia of the barefoot and pregnant providing the fodder of war. Women are no more than a commodity in the production of chattle for exploitation.

The more there are of us worker-bees the less value we have. We are a commodity to expend. We are the surfs attached to the lordship's land. A simple holding.

A gift from God my ass.

[XanaDUer]

8. And Reagan was pro-choice at one time

People like Santorum are insane but feel safe in this climate spewing the most batshit crazy stuff that would have gotten him laughed off the stage thirty years ago. Now they feel safe saying and doing almost anything

[ellenfl]

10. bush sr was also pro-choice at one time. eom

[XanaDUer]

11. I just read Mitt's dad George advocatedh

For civil rights. Now his son is pandering (or trying to they don't seem to like him) to the basest elements of the GOP

[EC]

12. No. it's not just you.

The Evangelicals actually built little Christian communities all over the U.S. and achieved some of their plans. I remember a cleaning woman where I was working trying to get away from her abusive husband. The church sent her to North Carilina to a new community they just built and told her they'd pay her rent and all she had to do was participate in functions put on by the church. I heard from her years later, that it was all political and she moved away to Colorado...anyway I thought at the time, the church was actually helping her...then I noticed here in town the church that helped her had grown the community (church elders owned the construction companies)into their own voting district, gaining representation. I also noticed they built these "communities" out in the boonies near highways, making them somewhat remote to the conveniences of the city and gaining their own schools, etc. Paul Ryan was one of those contractors here in WI.

[XanaDUer]

13. It's like the Pod People. nt