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Peacetrain

(22,879 posts)
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 01:13 PM Sep 2013

The never ending CRISIS (warning this has nothing to do with Syria)

I used to think it was more of an urban legend thingy..that the republicans would keep the country so off balance with crisis's that they would get back the Federal offices. People would BEG them to come back. But after 5 years I think it is probably closer to the truth.

Is anyone else just absolutely numb to the constant crisis situations that we seem to bounce from?

I heard a few years ago, that the one strategy basic to the republican future, was to keep a crisis on the front page at all times.

Even if it cost them in the polls in the here and now, they saw it as a way to wash the Bush years off of them, and get the White House back.

Now when I first heard this, I went yeah,, right,, and I have bridge for you in Brooklyn.

But now as we begin the 6th year of President Obama.. that might not be an urban legend after all.

What was it, just a few weeks ago, people in the south blamed Obama more for the response to Katrina than Bush. It is pressing backwards.. cleaning up the mess Bush left.

I see it on our own side. People (well I am assuming they are on our side) talking about this President being just like Bush.. or worse than Bush..

The republicans managed to take over the state houses in 2010 and gerrymander it so they can work with a minority grouping of voters to change everything,

If they can get the power in the federal goverment back.. they can finally undo all the social programs they have been trying to undo for 60 years.

Heck they have managed to have all the young people in debt to the company store for their education for the rest of their lives. (Thank you for nothing Ronald Reagan)

It is working.. we are being played as a country, by a very few who know how to work the populace. Packaging.. like in a grocery store.. it is set up to lead you to the most expensive things in the store.. so you spend money you did not intend to.. It is the same with politics.

Crisis..never ending crisis.

People will be so tired of the Democrats, Liberal, Progressives, Greens you name it.. they will vote for anyone who will stop the never ending crisis's.








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The never ending CRISIS (warning this has nothing to do with Syria) (Original Post) Peacetrain Sep 2013 OP
"Ben Gah Zi !" - War Cry of the Chickenhawk Republicons (R) Berlum Sep 2013 #1
Exactly Peacetrain Sep 2013 #2
I think this has more to do with corporate greed, they do not give a damn about which party is in JRLeft Sep 2013 #3
I can't disagree with that corporate greed. Peacetrain Sep 2013 #4
Even though Obama and Clinton were better than modern Republicans. (IMO Clinton and Obama are true JRLeft Sep 2013 #5

Peacetrain

(22,879 posts)
2. Exactly
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 01:54 PM
Sep 2013

And I bet you a dollar to a doughnut..that if you asked most republicans.. they would say there was never a embassy issue or death during the Bush years.

All the listen to is FOX and that agenda keeps them in the dark.

I trust no news outlet as far as I can throw it. They all have a corporate person to have to answer to.



 

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
3. I think this has more to do with corporate greed, they do not give a damn about which party is in
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 02:03 PM
Sep 2013

power. They give you their 2 candidates and you have to decide which one of their men or women will be in office but either way its their men or women.

Peacetrain

(22,879 posts)
4. I can't disagree with that corporate greed.
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 02:13 PM
Sep 2013

But I will take the party that supports goverment.. (that is us) over the corporations every single time.. They may not be perfect.. But I do not need to see my country destroyed in search of the perfect.

 

JRLeft

(7,010 posts)
5. Even though Obama and Clinton were better than modern Republicans. (IMO Clinton and Obama are true
Tue Sep 3, 2013, 02:16 PM
Sep 2013

Republicans) The modern republican is a crazy person.

They were both beholden to corporate interests.

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