America is About to Get the Government it Asked For. God Help Us.

[riqster]

http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/america-is-about-to-get-the-government-it-asked-for-god-help-us/

More Americans voted for “Republicans” than voted against them, so now we shall have even more GOPee government than we had before. It’s the will of the electorate, idiotic and short-sighted as it may be. Things are gonna suck a lot harder going forward for the vast majority of us. And unless you actively voted to defeat Repubs, you are getting what you asked for.

Sucks for the minority of us who worked hard for a different outcome, but the nation as a whole has picked this government. America is gonna regret this choice, but hey, maybe it’ll learn a lesson this time. Unlikely, but possible.

America, you asked for this, and you got it. You f***ing idiots.

[still_one]

1. sometimes the only way people learn is the hard way. Obviously, the financial meltdown was not

painful enough

[RKP5637]

7. Apparently it was not. Apparently what was needed was a total collapse. In retrospect, it looks

like Obama did too good a job of fixing it. Too bad Bush didn't have another 4 years to try to fix the mess.

[still_one]

11. There were a lot of republicans saying we should of let the financial industry collapse, and the

auto industry disappear in this country.

If we had followed that advice we would be in another great depression, and it would still be going on. Yes, a lot of people are still hurting, but a lot more would have joined that list if a romney was president

[RKP5637]

12. Agree so much, it would have been horrific. n/t

[workinclasszero]

37. "Apparently what was needed was a total collapse."

And it is coming sure as the sun rose up in the sky this morning.

The hate and greed of the republicans, the pathetic leadership failures of the democratic party and the total idiocy of a great part of the American public will make sure that it will happen.

I wish I was rich right now. I would either move to Canada or somewhere in a progressive Europe or I would dig a big whole in the woods and stock it up and await the apocalypse.

I have just about lost all hope for this idiot country.

[riqster]

41. It is hard to hope.

I'm not sure I still do. But I can't surrender, so I keep tilting at windmills.

"Sancho! My armor!"

[workinclasszero]

44. Me too

Can't let hate and lies win.

Keep tilting at those windmills my friend.

[RKP5637]

45. I live here because I was born here. Many years ago I had a chance to live in Canada and

I did not take it. So often I regret not having made that decision. IMO the US is spiraling totally out of control moving ever more into total Idiocracy.

[adigal]

9. I agree. I wonder what would have happened if we let the banks collapse.

I know from my cousin that food was rotting on the docks in NJ because the supermarkets couldn't get the credit to buy it.

A run on the grocery stores might be painful enough. But maybe not.

[riqster]

42. Or at least have prosecuted more of them.

[Xipe Totec]

2. We have the best government that money can buy. nt

[riqster]

34. And it ain't OUR product that we're paying for.

It's the GOPee product.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Yeah, I can't wait to hear the 'public' cries after a version of the Ryan Budget passes

in both houses and they discover what's in it.

[riqster]

40. I can't wait to tell them "we Toldjaso".

Swutting turlingdromes.

[MindPilot]

4. I try to take a Carlin-esque approach.

And be more of an observer than a participant. But that's kinda tough when they are hacking away at the very foundations.

[RKP5637]

13. I spent many decades in corp. life in management, and in the endless courses you take, there

is a time when it is said the best solution/policy is to walk away from it all, there is no solution, it is a loss cause, quit spinning cycles. I hate to say it, but sometimes I feel that way with the US. I think for the masses in this country there are hard times ahead. The problem is, it's very hard to walk away since the results will effect all of us.

[riqster]

33. Indeed. We can't cut bait in this case.

[safeinOhio]

5. All those koch teepee ads

"we can't trust Democrat, so and so"

Time people learn "we can't trust teevee ads"

[Bigmack]

31. I think that teevee ads have become Reality to many Americans...

J B Watson and Behaviorism applied to modern advertising.... and politics.

The same people who get into your head to buy, buy, buy.... also get into your head to elect, elect, elect...

"Look... over here... whiter, brighter teeth... more horsepower...kills germs...Benghazi...Kenya...Marxist...Death panels."

It's too late for us. We'll believe that black is white if we're told often enough.

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2011/02/15/the-psychology-of-advertising/

[riqster]

43. Repetition works. Even better if it drowns out opposing messages.

[riqster]

32. That would be nice.

[RKP5637]

6. What is stunning is governors like Brownback in Kansas and Rick Scott

in Florida got back in. America now deserves what they elected into office and the forthcoming results. It's so sad that millions have to suffer that had greater wisdom than to get sucked into another round of this GOP sh**. I guess some are just hoping for a repeat of the Bush years and many no doubt want Reagan back.

[riqster]

30. Insufficient turnout on our side, sufficient on theirs.

It sucks when you see the stupid people outgun the smart ones.

[adigal]

8. I think very blue states should insist our tax dollars don't get sent to very red states anymore

We pay taxes, the federal govt gives the money to the poor states for their Medicare, etc. No more. Let them all see what life is like without the smart, hardworking people who vote blue. THEN, maybe they will get their lazy asses to the polls.

Because a ten year war, collapse of the financial system, high unemployment didn't teach them a lesson. Maybe starving will.

[riqster]

25. That would help. Never happen, since the Red Staters control the money machine now.

[Brigid]

10. Molly Ivins used to tell the story . . .

About how old-timers used to cure farm dogs.of killing chickens. The farmer would take a chicken the dog had just killed and tie it firmly around the dog's neck, then make sure it stayed there until it completely rotted away. After days of enduring the rotting mess and the smell, the dog would never want to go near chickens again.

Right now, the Repugs and the idiots who voted for them are getting what they think they want. The chicken has just been tied around their necks. We'll see how they feel two years from now. Trouble is, we're in the position of that poor farmer who has to see and smell that damn rotting chicken too. it's going to be a long two years before we can get rid of them. The Repugs can do plenty of damage in that time. And it isn't as if they haven't done a great deal of damage already.

[riqster]

14. We've elected Repubs before, felt the pain and then...

The United States of Amnesia proceeded to repeat the mistake.

[Brigid]

15. Trouble is,

this damn dog has to be taught the same lesson over and over. In other words, the farm dog is smarter than the Repugs.

[riqster]

19. The farm dog is smarter than most of the electorate.

[hatrack]

16. Venal, stupid and crazy . . .

That's apparently how we roll.

[riqster]

23. Add "ignorant" and "lazy". These sins are truly deadly.

[Orsino]

17. The government that fewer than half of them were fooled into asking for.

We didn't go stupid in a vacuum. We weren't looking, yeah, but we didn't fall. We were pushed.

[riqster]

20. Many more were lazy, or immovable.

Quite true about the propaganda machine.

[Orsino]

22. Or carefully trained into apathy, yes. n/t

[riqster]

24. A distinction worth drawing. Thanks.

[JonLP24]

18. Obama inherited a terrible economy

and is showing significant improvement and while middle class are still feeling the effects, Obama wants unemployment insurance and payroll tax cute so workers can take home more of their pay.

Any economic report showed tax cuts as the major factor as well as war by far the 2 biggest effects on the economy.

“The U.S. is leading the way -- we’re the only major economy with accelerating growth,” said Mark Zandi, chief economist in West Chester, Pennsylvania, for Moody’s Analytics Inc. and a registered Democrat who has advised both the Obama administration and Senator John McCain, a Republican. “Obama deserves some credit for that, but he probably won’t get it.”

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-10-02/grading-obama-on-the-economy

Republicans haven't changed when it comes to their economic policies that led to Black Monday, the Reagan Recession, and the Great Recession. Not only are they transferring the wealth to the rich, they also want cuts to the safety nets which people are going to need when they have to deal with lower wages & disappearing jobs.

The people that support the party and policies are killing themselves and others effected. We've seen the real world consequences but the propaganda machine is so effective is pretty much every Republican in every election supports tax cuts which clearly doesn't work but still are relevant. Those tax cuts won't help them, they fight the tax cuts that go to those "who need it".

[riqster]

21. Too many people are either not engaged, or...

If they are engaged, are ill-informed.

[gordianot]

26. Voting Republican is like dogs chasing cars eventually the dog will become sorry.

[riqster]

29. In this case, the dogs also caused a huge crash.

Lots of people besides the dog will feel this.

[onecaliberal]

27. I was going to write the same thing.

America just out the vampires in charge of the blood bank.

[riqster]

28. Nicely put.

[corkhead]

35. at least they're starting to let us smoke pot legally

[riqster]

36. Kinda like Brave New World and Soma.

Not very encouraging if you think of it in that light.

[Initech]

38. There's no other explanation: America is experiencing Stockholm Syndrome.

The Republicans and the ultra corrupt bankers and billionaires have held our country hostage since the Reagan administration and refuse to let go of their power. And thanks to right wing hate radio dipshits like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity who exist only to repeat the big lie that we're the enemy, America has fallen for her kidnappers. It's pretty disgusting.

[riqster]

39. Sadly, that sounds plausible.

Sad and infuriating.