For many years now the right-wing zealots in this country have been portraying democrats and liberals of any stripe as Communists; Socialists, or Nazi's. For the longest time I thought that these people were just plain ignorant. I have come to the conclusion they aren't. This is a coordinated campaign to demonize and disparage their political rivals. It's well know that corporations are taking over all political decisions. We have a Supreme Court that really doesn't take the law into consideration when making their decisions. When almost every decision is 5 to 4 along political lines how does the law come into play? No one can tell me that the law is so ambiguous that it can be looked at that way. The right-wing is winning.
Think back to when the Supreme Court decision "Citizens United" legalized big money to buy elections and politicians. President Obama at the State of the Union address mentioned that decision and the affect it will have on our political discourse by allowing all that money to flow. Supreme Court Justice Alito shook his head no during the speech like the President didn't know what he was talking about. I think the years that have followed have shown that President Obama was right. When corporations are looked at as people you know things are going down hill fast. The right-wing is winning.
Lets look at their campaign to demonize unions. They do this because unions are one of the last entities that have any power to fight back. They have tried to convince the workers that the "UNION BOSSES" have been using the money they pay for dues for things that workers don't want or need. The sad thing is that many workers have bought into this scenario even though there are no facts to back this up. The attack on public unions and the so-called "right-to-work" laws have pitted employee against employee much to the glee of the right-wing. The right-wing is winning.
The so-called liberal media is a fallacy that has been perpetrated on us. Most newspaper and television outlets are owned by big business. There are very few investigative journalists left. We have Fox News which is not a news station but a propaganda outlet for the right-wing. They attack PBS and NPR at every opportunity. The major network news shows are dominated by the same guests every week. John McCain, Lindsay Graham, Ted Cruz, or their ilk. The same panelists George Will, Bill Kristol, David Brooks and so on. All right-wing zealots. They attack science at every opportunity. They spout their take on the bible when it suits them, but in my opinion most of them have probably never opened the bible and read it through, they cherry pick passages to suit their warped outlook. The right-wing is winning.
Twenty years ago I don't think some of the elected officials in this country would have been elected. You have Louis Gohmert and Steve King. We had Michelle Bachmann and Steve Stockman all complete morons. We have a new one in Wisconsin Congressman Glenn Grothman who thinks woman are bribed to have children out of wedlock. He also thinks that no one is entitled to a day off from work. I'm sure the list goes on and on. The point is, with voter suppression happening, and the uninterested voters who don't take part in our democracy, we are heading for a disaster. If the Republicans can't stop the crazy people in their party we are headed back to the time when you have no individual power to make your own decisions. The right-wing is winning.
The police state isn't far from becoming a reality. The deaths of people recently have brought this problem to the forefront, but this has been going on for awhile. It isn't just black men that are being killed or harassed, whites who try and protest or are on the undesirable list face the same problem. Look back to the Occupy Movement. People were abused many many times by the police with no consequences. The police have the same mentality as the Catholic Church has when it's dealing with the pedophile priests. They circle the wagons and don't admit that they have bad individuals working for them. The right-wing is winning.
We have laws being written and put into law by legislators who don't even read them before voting on them. They rely on the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a pro-business front, and they do their bidding. The right-wing is winning.
I could go, but the point is our country is being taken over by corporations and their stooges IE the right-wing who don't care about the country. Their only concern is that they have power. When these people are caught in lies what do they do? They say they were taken out of context, or they give some lame apology then go back to their lies with no consequence.
The liberal and progressives in this country are partially to blame. We focus on an issue to the exclusion of others. We let the right-wing frame the conversation in this country. It's time for people of both parties to start standing up and fighting back. The main thing is that we have to is get out and vote, if you sit home and let the right-wing tea-party types control things there might come a time when you will see what's happening, but by then it might be to late.
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