There are none so blind as those who will not see
Panic-stricken Republican
pundits blanket the media as we close in on November 6th. They continue to vigorously manufacture an
alternate universe that is reminiscent of the vision created by
Director Robert Zemeckis in Back to the
Future II. This is an image of a parallel
time warp depicting neighborhoods strewn with litter, populated with graffiti-covered homes and a
ubiquity of security bars. Republicans wish to implant this representation into the minds of whomever is gullible enough
to believe them.
They root for America to fail as
an attempt to power-grab, in hopes that their Party will regain dominance so as
to protect the interests of the ultra wealthy and to continue their desired path of income
inequality.
On Sunday's This Week with George Stephanopoulos, George’s roundtable guest, Republican
pundit Peggy Noonan said “People don’t
think things are getting better economically.” That statement compelled me to write this
blog. In fact, just the opposite is
true. “Consumer Confidence in U.S. Rises to a Seven-Month High,” is the
headline of a Bloomberg News article authored by
Alex Kowalski dated September 25th.
Below is an excerpt of a poll from right-leaning Rasmussen, covering the past two months. It reveals a ten point upward swing of improved
confidence in the direction America is moving.
DATE
|
RIGHT DIRECTION
|
WRONG TRACK
|
37%
|
55%
|
|
36%
|
58%
|
|
35%
|
58%
|
|
37%
|
57%
|
|
31%
|
62%
|
|
28%
|
63%
|
|
29%
|
63%
|
|
29%
|
63%
|
|
27%
|
66%
|
Alarm permiates the Republican air
as their pundits and politicians realize how unlikely it is that Mitt Romney will
be offering anything other than a consolation speech on the evening of November
6th. This fact-free Party continues
its feeble attempt to project onto the American public that they and they alone
can protect us from an otherwise certain Armageddon.
Americans are smarter than
that. We have witnessed the destruction that,
to borrow a phrase from Newt Gingrich, “right-wing social engineering” has cost our
nation. No, this time we have history to
counsel us. To quote another prominent Republican, “Fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get
fooled again.”
I live in the state known as "Ground Zero" of the housing crisis. It has been horrible here for years. But in the past six months, give or take, things are looking up. Houses are selling, people seem a tiny bit more optimistic--if cautiously so--and there seems to be more building, more business, going on. You really nail it--the Republicans cannot win without making things look dire, so they make stuff up.
ReplyDeleteI think we've all had enough made-up stuff to last a lifetime.