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The right was so pissed about getting HCR reformed getting rammed down their throats that they not only beat Democrats in record numbers, but they even targetted and beat Republican incumbents and establishment candidates. The right wing moved the Republican party even more to the right, then it was before. Thus, you had a bunch of radical right wing economic illiterates who were willing to blow up the entire economy, and risk a default, in the House, who forced an austerity program on the rest of the U.S.
The right wing did this by winning elections, not boycotting them. Yes, they had substantial assistance and guidance from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Freedom Works and Fox News, but in the end the radical right not only beat Democrats, but some incumbent Republicans. Except for a few outliers, the radical right did not form a new party. They just took over an existing one, and moved it even further to the right.
Well, the left just had had austerity rammed down their throat by the radical right. Heck, the radical right has been ramming things down the throat of the left following the 2010 elections beginning with the destruction of public employee collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin by George Walker with substantial assistance and support by the Koch brothers and Mitt Romney. Chris Christie scored points by ridiculing public teachers. Even most recently, House Republicans forced the furlough of thousands of FAA workers because they wanted to curb collective bargaining rights.
So, the right has been grabbing the left by the mouth, spreading it wide open, and ramming right wing policies down the throat of the left and the American people again and again at the State level and the Federal level. And, just when you think they have made their point, they come back, threaten to harm the poor, the middle class, and hold out for the rich, because the rich are the job creators and taxes kill jobs. The right wing won in 2010 by telling us that they would create jobs by cutting spending!
How will the left react to getting all these right wing policies rammed down its throat by a Republicans who will not hesitate to harm the poor, middle class, your family members, in order to protect the rich, er job creators?
Will the left organize and win elections? Or, will they pout, stay home in 2010? Or, cast meaningless protest vote for a fictional character in 2012? Put another, after getting right wing policies rammed down its throat as a result of the 2010 elections, will the left win elections in 2012 and take back Congress or will it simply open wider and invite the right to give it another go, but this time with some gusto?
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