The GOP Has So "F'ed" Everything Up In This Country It Seems Almost Hopeless

[DAngelo136]

43. It Can Get Better...

The Reagan Administration ushered in a new era of divisiveness and greed. Sure enough, it began with the walkout of the "Dixiecrats" from the 1948 Democratic Convention led by Strom Thurmond, through the "Southern Strategy" of the Nixon campaign and then culminates with the Reagan administration's "October Surprise".
Republicans made a Faustian deal with those former Dixiecrats, neo-conservatives, and free marketers in order to gain office and gain power. Led by the "Goebbels Of AM Radio", Rush Limbaugh and given ideological cover by think tanks funded by the shadowy Koch brothers like the Cato Institute, they ran roughshod over liberal institutions who as Christopher Hedges contends became morally bankrupt and was powerless to oppose the onslaught. And for a while, everything went the Republicans way. Even Democrats seemed to have drank the conservative "kool-aid" ( I wonder how the Kool-Aid company feels about that phrase?) You could see the results of their nasty campaigns: Rural pitted against urban; young against old; Black against White (even more so); rich against middle class and middle class against poor. All the while, the Republicans aiding and abetting the gutting of country and the theft of the Treasury.
And now, the day of reckoning is nigh. Not that we didn't get any warning; the Keating 5, the Savings & Loan debacle, Iran-Contra and Enron. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, the conservative "boogie man" was gone, so they found another; the "terrorist" but even then, it wasn't the same.
So here we are, financially broke, spiritually bankrupt and sensory deprived. We have become numb to our decline and we now escape to "reality TV" (an oxymoron, as if there ever was one) But here, now, we will discover who we are as a nation. We have to find the courage within ourselves to no longer accept things the way things are. We've seen behind the curtain and found that there are no wizards, just men and women who can be replaced BY US. Laws can be changed, policies altered and politicians voted out of office. Now the choice is ours; we can choose to master our collective fates or sit back and watch it all go away. I have made my choice; I have no alternative.
Peace!