Thanks
For Nothing
 One
of the more notable "gurus" of the conservative set is
Grover Norquist, who has oft famously stated that he wants
to
reduce the size of the government "until it can be drowned
in a bathtub". What that really means is the top 1% want
to be totally above the laws of decency. They have money,
you don't, so why should they play by your quaint golden
rules?
Well, guess what? The Republican Party is about halfway
to their goal. For the past five years they've pretty much
blocked
anything the Democrats want to do legislatively, effectively
shutting down the
government's ability to get anything done... apart, that
is, from building more weapon systems that the military
doesn't really want.
Nothing, therefore, is the new normal, and should a Republican
ever attain the White House it'll be the Democrats turn
to start tossing monkey wrenches into governmental cogs.
(They won't happen because they're the sane party, but
play along for the sake of argument.)
So now we have government that doesn't work for long stretches
of time and the checks that used to grease the wheels stop
showing up in mailboxes. There's
no funding for regulatory agencies so the food and water
and air all start going bad. You are now left to fend for
yourself so those assault rifles are going to come in real
handy. Meanwhile
the people who actually own what's left of this country
are
enjoying a very long skiing holiday in the Swiss Alps.
There is a simple answer to this madness... stop voting
for people based upon their perceived fondness for god
and guns. Study the candidate's background and see if his
policies will
benefit
YOU, and
anything that sounds like "lowering taxes for the rich
creates jobs"
should be met with loud, wet, and derisive snorting. Literally
gutting the 1% and sharing their wealth among everyone
else would be
a big
step
forward, and would give NBC a badly-needed ratings boost
if they televised it, but that's pretty radical, so let's
begin with raising millionaire
taxes
another
15% and go from there.
And so, after all that, I leave you with this:
Statistically speaking, six out of seven dwarves
aren't Happy.
=Lefty=
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