The American people never learn.

[kentuck]

After 8 long years of the disastrous Bush Administration, they learned absolutely nothing.

After the Bush Republicans drove our economy off the cliff, doubled the debt, and wrecked the lives of millions of middle-class Americans, they blamed it on someone else.

Now they want to clean up the disaster they caused which looks like it will be just as bad or worse than the initial disaster. The people will need to suffer. That is their solution.

We learned nothing. America put the same people in charge to clean up the mess they created in the first place. Who knows where we will be when they "fix" it this time?

[ixion]

1. Not just Americans: Humans.

It seems to be a fatal flaw in our (intelligent, huh?) hardwired design.

[mwb970]

2. The greedy have enlisted the ignorant to defeat the decent.

All the money and power are on the evildoers' side. The abysmal ignorance and lack of critical thinking among our population provides fertile ground for republican lies to take root. Now, we reap the harvest.

[lonestarnot]

8. Apt description.

[HereSince1628]

3. Unclear antecedents...

Who are they that drove the economy off the cliff? The American people? The Bush people? Others?

I guess we are us.

[kentuck]

4. Sorry about that..

We have met the enemy and it is us.

[HereSince1628]

5. Perfectly sensible, that.

[liberal N proud]

6. The only reason they want to clean up the disaster they created is...

because they can make a profit from it.

This will like all other things the republicans have done will be on the backs of the poor and middle class.


Greed is their only motivation!

[cprise]

7. We were bum-rushed by the unlimited corp funding

...for their media machine. I'm sure the "Citizen's United" decision made a huge difference in the last election cycle.

And, yes, Americans do respond to vast amounts of the best propaganda money can buy.

We haven't re-learned how to treat wealthy people esp. corporate aristocrats with a broad, class-conscious suspicion. Indeed, after a hiatus, a huge amount of what I see on TV these days seems intended to make the rich and powerful seem familiar, lovable and needed.

Unfortunately things have gone so far now that it may take a revolution of some sort to rectify the situation.

[kentuck]

9. Well said..

And many have over-looked the role the Supreme Court has played, with the CU decision, in this whole sorry mess in WI and other states.

You are right about Americans buying into the propaganda.

[Overseas]

10. That's why I wanted a big FDR push as soon as our President was inaugurated.

We could have been bipartisan with what Republicans USED TO stand for.
"You guys USED TO be fiscally responsible, but the modern GOP drove our economy off a cliff..."

But I guess too many of my Democratic legislators had been corrupted by corporate power to do that.

Pushing Bipartisanship with the modern GOP was not at all practical and pragmatic for Democratic citizens or legislators in the long run, especially when the modern GOP's main goal has clearly been to crush Democrats by crushing unions. Democratic legislators compromised too much and let the cruel GOP push the Obama administration to eliminate enough of its recovery programs (including health care reform) to keep people hurting so they wouldn't vote Democratic again.

And the younger Dems didn't know that even if you are called names and belittled by your own party you're still supposed to vote for them. So Democrats got us old Yellow Dog Democrats to vote the D as always, but new voters imbued with hope in 2008 stayed home.

Supply Side Economics (aka give to the rich and they will hire millions) had crashed and burned and our party pretended that had not happened.

We compromised with the Party of Deregulation and Torture and crushing Democrats.