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emanymton

(2,102 posts)
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 09:27 AM Oct 2013

Evil Of Government Era Is Over!!!

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Rachel Maddow hit a grand-slam. In last night's broadcast:

Dems stress good governance in crises' wake

http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

Ms Maddow articulated the issue perfectly. The past two weeks activities has brought an end to the 'anti-government,' 'treating government as the enemy', 'revile government' narrative as espoused by the other side.

Her point is the President, in making the case FOR good government/governance and for what government does is important, brings the over-arching GOP narrative to an end. For the past 30 years the GOP narrative has been to attack government, to undermine government, with statements that government is evil - government is the problem. GOP has actively worked to break the people's bond with their government.

GOP free ride is over.


Well done and thank you!

Ema Nymton
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Evil Of Government Era Is Over!!! (Original Post) emanymton Oct 2013 OP
Should anyone care to listen PATRICK Oct 2013 #1

PATRICK

(12,228 posts)
1. Should anyone care to listen
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 10:10 AM
Oct 2013

to these extremists, as has been the actual case since Reagan "new wave" conservatism failed to win over the majority of voters, it is pretty clear they also have cleared away those illusions separating themselves from a march to pure minority dictatorship by the usual means. Yes, you would think that exposure of this means pre-emption, repudiation by ANY human capable of common sense like a bottle now clearly labeled "POISON!".

I do believe the majority of Americans have held the ground, sometimes barely, against the advance of this decay, even after losing their ability to vote in true numbers under the GOP impunity of election fraud. Yet the disease continues unabated and keeps raising the stakes with more dumb, more brutal and more financed assaults on everything living. Overall the big picture is not that this highwater(or low) battle of the goons signals decline but that they are not really opposed or allowed to be opposed due to the submission of the entire world system to greed. Only suicide and the massive inertial power of life slowly grinds them down. Meanwhile their incredible damage continues.

For example, the meme, because politely true, of "false equivalence" is a gross if not silent irony of corporate pravda that rankled much of the media of late. Using a technical four syllable word actually managed to survive where terms like "cognitive dissonance" have faded. On PBS for example you catch the heads lamenting they couldn't do their anti-Obamacare takedown with absolutely nothing to push for or against that would benefit the GOP. They had to half-heartedly and with immense reserve or peevishness at the monsters they created join in the "mob" against the mini mob. The main problem and problem makers? The complaints by rich people who created and maintained these useful idiots?

Private owned monopolies on traditional information outlets are not under siege. GOP seats are barely threatened at this distance from election time.
Obama, even with a strengthened hand will deal with these thugs in some very unnecessary ways. And talk about false equivalency- that the Dems more than surrender to. Have Democrats- as with election fraud- ever remotely offended or caused harm to democracy- AND gotten away with it- like the GOP? All thanks to dirty money, insane plutocrats and their privately owned print and electronic brainwashing. Are we even closer to talking actual reform on anything at all? No we are merely holding the line on a baby step to actually improving America with health care.

The GOP is still a delusional force dragging all life on this planet backward to the pit instead of going the natural way of the Whigs. Nor can the big money scared by their creatures initiate reform at all, in the slightest.

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