Saturday, September 24, 2011
Bias vs. "Just say nObama"
I know I'm picking on the TeaPublicans. I listened to the debates and could agree with some issues but there are some problems with going for a Republican candidate at this time. They can't cooperate with Democrats and the Tea Party thinks to do so would be abandoning their principals. The democrats do cooperate. Embarrassingly so with issues like the debt ceiling fight. This shameless exaggeration that anything democratic or Obama-supported is wrong or that his office so far has caused some massive problem is just wrong. False. Total baloney. Did Rick Perry actually turn 180 on his beliefs since he was Gore's campaign manager? He's either stupid or lying. All republicans voting "no" together is wrong. Holding the country hostage and damaging our S&P rating on the debt ceiling fight was kicking Americans while they're down. Taking "no taxes" pledges when tax rates are the lowest in 70 years is wrong. Our hands are tied to fix the deficit. Refusing to add a few percent to tax the richest or closing loopholes or subsidies to corporations is wrong. Not funding two wars with any inconvenience to us was gross deficit growth. Continuing the wars after 10 years and wanting to increase defense spending that is 10 times any of the other biggest powers is wrong. Putting getting Obama out over helping the economy is unpatriotic. It also may be a racist thing. Thinking the government can't do anything right ignores all the monster mistakes and immoralities we see private enterprise (large corporations) do all the time. It took monster fights to get the car companies to take any actions on fuel economy, emissions or safety (like using safety glass for instance). We see examples of intentional or accidental chemical dumping all the time. Corporations are required to maximize profits to the shareholders. Employees and Consumers often get hammered to make that happen. The middle class is shrinking dangerously and Republicans want to eliminate corporate taxes (during record corporate profits without being "job creators") and tax the poor (which would gather minimal taxes). They say Obama is a socialist but then so is George W. Bush since they both pushed for $800B economy fix-it plans. I could go on but the whole thing is just a wrong way to look at the world and government. Hate liberals. Hate the government. Resent the poor (which includes veteran's families). The whole system is broken and/or illegal (they say). How is this not hating America? Who is in that America that they don't hate? I used to lament that the two parties were Tweedledee and Tweedledum. I long for those more cooperative times. I would like Obama to do lots of things different but the other side has the wrong world view and sees opposition as an enemy which nobody should vote for.
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