I fear we're either at the point of no return or past it now [View All]

If the teabaggers in Congress don't budge, and why should they with their stated goal of destroying the government, our government will default and start a series of bad events that can't be reversed. If the Democrats agree to 'compromise' by cutting vital social programs it will also set off a series of events like falling dominoes. They've managed to take a fake crisis and create a real one, like everything else they've done. Either outcome of whatever plan wins is bad, and with either alternative we lose. The die is cast.

Who are we kidding to think either outcome will be any better than the other in the long run? Congress has the power right now which is held by a handful of treasonous people who are dead set on drowning the government. It doesn't matter that they're stupid or that they'll realize at some point that what they've done will hurt them too and destroy the country itself. It'll be too late to stop whatever will be set in motion once we've crossed the point of no return. Although like I said above, maybe we've already passed it. This damned debt ceiling crisis fiasco already seems to have the momentum of a seismic unstoppable mudslide going over a cliff. There's not a damn thing that can stop it because the point of no return has been passed.

Maybe this is a good thing. I don't know because not enough history has elapsed to make a judgement. But right now it's pretty plain to see that our country's foundation, or what we believed it's foundation to be is broken beyond repair. In hindsight it's kind of been obvious for years that we've been on a downward spiral of destruction. To people who paid attention all along they've seen it's happening for decades, albeit they've had to peer into secretive darkness for the most part. When the Supreme Court selected Bush as President in 2000 we were naive in our belief that it was an anomaly that would easily be rectified. I think we blindly believed it would be reversed because anyone could see it was a crime against our Constitutionally based Democratic government. Speaking for myself I believed our legal institutions would step in and litigate the Constitutional Crisis that was upon us, then later when that didn't happen I was sure that the next election would again show that the American people have the real power, but the only thing that happened was that the election was stolen again.

we realized slowly and painfully that the news media had been highjacked by corporations and billionaires with a self-serving agenda. It took a while for it to really sink in because maybe we just didn't want to believe it or maybe they were still being secretive about allowing that knowledge to come out. Now in hindsight we can see how we were really duped all along. Just like the teabaggers and a large part of Americans are still being duped. The propaganda machine works non-stop to keep us dazzled and entertained into submissive slumber while they obfuscate about the harsh truths of job losses and growing homelessness and while they commit the biggest heist of all time, stealing from the middle class and giving to the rich. They go on TV and lie boldly right to our faces while the transference of wealth is being done before our very eyes with their sleight of hand. They're bold and brazen about it which is most likely an indicator that they feel they have nothing to fear from us anymore. They've stepped out into broad daylight and they openly break laws and destroy unions and the right to choose since the last election. It's hard to believe how much headway they made since just last November which was only a mere eight months ago. It's almost breathtaking to see how fast they've moved once they were elected and how tightly synchronized they were and how many fronts they simultaneously opened on their war on us. It's obvious now of course.


Some people are rising up in protest as we see in Wisconsin, but it seems to be a race against time whether the Republicans, now infused and overrun by teabaggers will win or we will win. We're being killed by a thousand cuts from every side. People are losing their jobs and their homes and they can't recover because the jobs are gone now and they're not coming back. Those days are over. They're successfully keeping us off balance just enough so they can implement their tactics in the open which I think is a strong indication that they're comfortably confident of getting anything and everything they want.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I think they laid a very solid foundation while they worked in secret for decades, and I think that by the time they were able to quite openly go to the Supreme Court and have them select the next president it was probably already too late. A slow motion coup d'etat has been happening right under our noses, especially since 2000. I don't know if we, the people, still have enough power to stop it. I certainly hope we do. I plan to continue to vote and continue to be part of my union as long as it exists, and continue to do what I can to educate people. I'm a believer in never giving up the righteous fight for equality and justice for all humans. I can accept defeat in a battle as long as I know I fought the good fight for the right side every inch of the way. There is no dishonor in losing in that way but there is dishonor in them winning the way they're doing it. Given a choice I will always choose the side that's right, whether it's the winning side or not.

If you made it this far in my little rant I thank you.

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