This Monday, March 4, 2013, is the 80th birthday of the New Deal.

I think THAT is the reason the GOP is so obsessed with forcing the sequester now

That day is a reminder to them that, once, their party's willingness to force millions into permanent, unimaginable poverty in order to prevent the wealthy from making any sacrifices for the good of the country or doing anything to undo the damage they had done throughout the "Roaring Twenties" was stopped...and stopped from below, by the combined efforts of a courageous new leader and a dedicated campaign or organizing and resistance from below. They are bound and determined not to be stopped again.

...and it's a major reason why we need to make whatever stand we can in favor of the economic and social values Franklin Delano Roosevelt(with help from others to his left, it must be remembered)lived and died for. If they succeed in reshaping the country along the lines of their ideology, we will become a land very much like the "developing world", with a massive impoverished class and a tiny, insanely wealthy elite with unchallengeable dominance over all of life.

We cannot let this happen. The culture of resistance must be built. Our children depend on it, and so do our parents.

"The only thing we have to fear is...fear itself!"