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jack8007 -> RE: This Really Shouldn't Surprise Anyone... (3/2/2011 2:49:24 PM)
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just not proof
Proof is the GOP reaction to Sharon Angle, including her comment about "2nd amendment remedies".
Of course our nation (like many) was born in violent revolution, and of course that's what she's saying - that if you don't do things our way, we're going to start shooting.
I kinda fucking doubt it. Republicans generally are chickenhawks, and Teabaggers specifically are blowhards. The last President that kicked ass on anybody was a Democrat leading Democrats, FDR & Co. Teabaggers vs a Democratic administration would play out like Koresh vs ATF did. But there is always the 10% who never get the word, so every so often some Teabagger will pack up his armory and go looking for the Tides Foundation.
The problem with Democrats is that they think too damn much, including thinking about where exactly the country is going to be if they tell Republicans & their delinquent children the Teabaggers to put up or shut up - and the answer is that the Teabaggers are too fucking dumb to realize that they WILL put the country back into the 18th century if they let nature take its course on Wall Street, and that is the reason that both Bush and Obama have agreed on bailouts. While Goldman Sachs, Bernie Madoff et al deserve to dangle at the end of a short drop, the consequences are worse than the rest of us deserve. And the GOP is happy to exploit that sense of responsibility.
Where Obama has failed us is in refusing to act like an owner once we bought Wall Street. And honestly, ownership doesn't matter as much as management, and the only solution I see is to tighten up their assholes gradually, to the point that the financial industry no longer operates like a horde of highwaymen.
Yes, piracy used to be a hazard of the free market. Then so was forgery, fraud, etc. Little by little we eliminated those problems, not because any regime was nice, but because the reliability of a more or less transparent market expands commercial reach & power - if some degree of honesty can survive the quarter, it is usually the better policy. It doesn't depend on the twisted talents of a Machiavelli or Stalin, and it's much easier to get people together around the feel-good approach of Fox News than the approach of the KGB.
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