Phew! It's an Onion story.

I kind of feel this way. I want to give the Republicans everything they want, just to watch everything in the country to go to shit. Crime will go up, terrorist attacks will increase, people will be dying with no health care, unemployment will skyrocket, bridges will collapse, oil companies will run police forces in the middle east... Just so they'll finally realize that they might need to step back the ideals a bit.

And then I realize that we tried that already, and they still don't realize that. Meh.

Ronald Reagan.

>> ^AeroMechanical:

Ronald Reagan.


Reagan gets a bad rap when really he didn't know what was going on. He spent most of his later years simply saying what rich people told him to say...as GE spokesman and then as President. Everyone knew that if Reagan went off script you had to shut him up or he was going to say something crazy.

If you don't buy it think about this. Ronald Reagan was credited with starting a Revolution, for being the man who formed the modern republican party. Yet after he left office how many interviews did he do? How many experienced journalists went to talk to him about the future of his party and what they should be doing? Nobody of any significance because all the journalists knew he didn't know what was going on, that he wasn't in charge at all.

It was the PATRIOTS!!

And Thomas Edison gets too much credit. When somebody is the public figurehead of a group, and that group has a coherent personality, then it's meaningful to identify the actions of the group with the figurehead.

The gestalt entity known as Ronald Reagan kicked the supports out from under the California state government, and then went on to do the same to the federal government. I can't think of one aspect of the current financial/political crisis in the US that can't be clearly linked to the reagonite program. Barring everything else, he choose to be the symbol of that, and I'll continue to treat him as such.

>> ^Yogi:
Reagan gets a bad rap

Big upvote.

I am completely exhausted with being concerned over the crazy BS going on in US politics. My coping mechanism now is to just say, "fuck it".

So let the teabaggers elect inexperienced morons who are too stupid to know when they've become corporate shills. Let the conservative right try to return this country to the social and economic dark ages. Let it happen. If this country is really overrun by so many mindless conservative sheep and self styled "patriot" lunatics that they actually succeed in taking over the government...well...it's going to be one hell of a ride.

I'm going to be laughing my ass off as the train flies off the tracks. And if there's one ounce of life left in my after it all comes crashing down, I will pull my broken body across the ground just to point and laugh in the face of any of my fellow survivors.

Bring it.

Thing is, Republicans are representing the wealthy, so these problems of having no healthcare, being unemployed, etc. are problems that affect the middle class and are therefore of little concern to the GOP.

>> ^direpickle:

I kind of feel this way. I want to give the Republicans everything they want, just to watch everything in the country to go to shit. Crime will go up, terrorist attacks will increase, people will be dying with no health care, unemployment will skyrocket, bridges will collapse, oil companies will run police forces in the middle east... Just so they'll finally realize that they might need to step back the ideals a bit.
And then I realize that we tried that already, and they still don't realize that. Meh.

Turns out, Reagan literally didn't know what was going on.

>> ^Yogi:

>> ^AeroMechanical:
Ronald Reagan.

Reagan gets a bad rap when really he didn't know what was going on. He spent most of his later years simply saying what rich people told him to say...as GE spokesman and then as President. Everyone knew that if Reagan went off script you had to shut him up or he was going to say something crazy.
If you don't buy it think about this. Ronald Reagan was credited with starting a Revolution, for being the man who formed the modern republican party. Yet after he left office how many interviews did he do? How many experienced journalists went to talk to him about the future of his party and what they should be doing? Nobody of any significance because all the journalists knew he didn't know what was going on, that he wasn't in charge at all.
It was the PATRIOTS!!

>> ^direpickle:
I kind of feel this way. I want to give the Republicans everything they want, just to watch everything in the country to go to shit. Crime will go up, terrorist attacks will increase, people will be dying with no health care, unemployment will skyrocket, bridges will collapse, oil companies will run police forces in the middle east... Just so they'll finally realize that they might need to step back the ideals a bit.
And then I realize that we tried that already, and they still don't realize that. Meh.


Unfortunately, Republicans blame Democrats for everything. They would do that, fail, then say that it WOULD have worked but for all the fucking up the Democrats did beforehand.

I support Sarah Palin as she is the best hope in defeating Obama and failing liberal policies ruining America.

>> ^TheFreak:

Big upvote.
I am completely exhausted with being concerned over the crazy BS going on in US politics. My coping mechanism now is to just say, "fuck it".
So let the teabaggers elect inexperienced morons who are too stupid to know when they've become corporate shills. Let the conservative right try to return this country to the social and economic dark ages. Let it happen. If this country is really overrun by so many mindless conservative sheep and self styled "patriot" lunatics that they actually succeed in taking over the government...well...it's going to be one hell of a ride.
I'm going to be laughing my ass off as the train flies off the tracks. And if there's one ounce of life left in my after it all comes crashing down, I will pull my broken body across the ground just to point and laugh in the face of any of my fellow survivors.
Bring it.


Enjoy your checkpoints n' shit.

And what about the socialist utopia promised by lefties? Taxocrats controlled Congress from 2006 till now and then came His Earness 2 years later. Spent a whole lot of "The People's" money with no results except higher unemployment and more corrupt laws.

If I was a hardcore lefty, I'd simply move to Europe: the EU already promises all the "free" goodies the socialists are trying to bring forth here in the States. Ah, the mighty EU, minus bankrupt Greece and Ireland.

>> ^quantumushroom:

And what about the socialist utopia promised by lefties? Taxocrats controlled Congress from 2006 till now and then came His Earness 2 years later. Spent a whole lot of "The People's" money with no results except higher unemployment and more corrupt laws.
If I was a hardcore lefty, I'd simply move to Europe: the EU already promises all the "free" goodies the socialists are trying to bring forth here in the States. Ah, the mighty EU, minus bankrupt Greece and Ireland.


Enh. 2006-2008 didn't really count, as the Dems couldn't really get anything done without Bush approval. Likewise, in two years I won't be able to blame everything that happens from now until then on a Republican controlled House: they can't get shit done without Democrat approval. It'll be a bipartisan effort to suck.

But you do know that >40% of the money that was 'spent' with no results actually came in the form of tax cuts, right? That taxes are the lowest they've been in decades? That the Democrats have been following right in line with Republican ideology in all but a couple of areas? That for the most part they have virtually identical philosophies with regard to most of this stuff? And yet you still vilify them? They're doing what you The Corporations want. Even the health care bill is virtually identical to what the Republicans proposed in the 90s.