Reply #56: I don't think I'd put the real version of Cotton Hill on my site either. [View All]

[HughBeaumont]

Seriously. Name ONE . . . and I mean ONE accomplishment the GOP can run on. ONE. Just ONE. Let's challenge even further, since limiting it to the past seven years is like shooting fish in a barrel. In the 20 years they were in power since 1980 . . . name ONE accomplishment that didn't eventually result in failure in the lives of normal people. Anybody . . .? Anybody?

Exactly.

They. Got. DIDDLY.

All smoke and mirrors. They brainwashed, through their hundreds of media channels, almost half of the American public into thinking Republicans "kept them safe", "lowered their taxes", "fought successfully against creeping socialism", "win the fight against terrorism".

What they really did was:

* Fooled them into thinking Presidents actually have something to DO with "keeping them safe", because most Americans are kind of lax on that little thing called "cause and effect"
* Created a massive national debt, privatized the wealth, socialized the risk, played "kick the can" economics and got off scot-free while we're going to be left holding the bill.
* Used American's ages-old fear and hatred of Communism/Socialism in 2008 (I mean . . . DUDE. Does anyone STILL buy into that whole "Red Menace" thing in 2008? DUDE. COME on. European, British, Canadian and Scandanavian socialistic systems don't seem to be too shabby. Read a damned book sometime) as a mask to shift all of the risk onto US.
* Created an easy enemy, an eternal war and a personal MIC mint with YOUR tax money. Ain't no damned "War on Terror" being fought. Ain't even started. You've been HAD! Hoodwinked! Bamboozled! Led astray! Run Amok!

And like someone else on here once said, they have nothing but one strategy: "Better the Devil You Know Than the Devil Unseen".

On paper, it looks like a mismatch.

Yet, so did 2000 and 2004.

And America is STILL one of the least progressive nations when it comes to race/gender relations.

America needs to wake up, wise up, and more importantly . . . GROW up.

If we choose poorly, our time is as good as up.