Is the Republican push to destroy unions, pensions, SS, Medicare & the middle class overreach?

...will they win?


...or have they woken a sleeping giant?

who is making a strong stand for any of the above. If the answer is no one...then you have your answer. :(

I grew up poor in scranton biden has too. That doesn't mean WE have to. Fuck them. We are our own salvation.

But obviously some of us won't go down without a fight.

Apparently everything's fine

...but it looks like "the people" just might be ready to fight back.

Ed Shultz is talking about the National Guard. I fit comes to that, if it comes to them taking what is rightfully ours by force the shit will hit the fan. This isn't the 60's, the world is watching us as much as we are watching them. Thousands of people with cell phones and cameras, there will never be a "grassy knoll" again. Whatever they do the whole world will see it.

and when they get pushed against the wall they will either cave in,give up and accept their dismal fate or they will fight. What have they got to lose? As it is everything they want or have is on the block--pensions,jobs,raises,benefits,healthcare,S.S., Medicare,Medicaid,public schools,their homes,their futures. It is time to stop the giant,that corporate giant that has consumed so much of our jobs,lifestyle,security already and the party that is their spokesperson who is trying to make or change every rule,every law into their favor.

This is the existential battle for the middle class. We fuck this up, better get used to less and less and less, because we'll be done as a nation until the next Middle East-style uprising. And that could take a generation or longer. Tell your kids, "Sorry."

The population has been beaten down and hit with so much propaganda for so long I can no longer predict.

Corporations & billionaires can now massively outspend the democrats, getting republicans elected in masses to do the dirty work for the rich and their corporations thus being able to destroy the republican ideology and corporations biggest opposition - the workers ONLY united democratic voice...Unions!

will compromise, or give-in on some of it which is a WIN for them.

Meanwhile, their base stays happy because it appears they are pushing for everything they voted for... which is ironically true.

A compromise strategy DOES NOT WORK against a full-court political press.

I just know it doesn't seem like coherent plan to create jobs. I always wonder when the Republican voter is going to get it that no matter what they say, they are never going to get around to legislating things that are actually to the benefit of the Republican voter. Even odder is the independent voter that seem to keep turning to these people even though ever turn through they get worse and worse and more and more obvious their main objective is targeting the middle class, not helping it? The longer these people don't get it the longer they win.

On the other hand yes the large liberal base in this country that voted in the 2008 congress and Obama seems pissed. Not just in one area or one state. There is a large under current of liberals that are angry and they seem to be finally on the streets again. Oddly a few thousand teaparty protesters was a national movement. What's tens of thousands then?

Drop taxes, drive up spending on wars, then use the resulting economic problems as an excuse to cut all those social programs you hate, attack unions, etc. The Democrats have happily played along with the entire thing, but thankfully, a lot of people seem to have had enough.

I don't know who's going to win, but I certainly hope it's the middle class for once.

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I would hope that in the long term people will realize that these policies are doing far more harm than they could ever do good.

It will take some liberal to stand up and denounce the entire approach that conservatives have and make that argument stick. The simple fact is that supply side economics has failed and the only solutions being attempted to fix the problems it has caused is more supply side economics.

Unless and until we reverse that entire approach to our economy we are screwed.