Reply #15: The Beginning of the Beginning of the End [View All]

[Hidden Stillness]

I have thought that it was the beginning of the end for this extremist archcon/neocon/corporate/Anti-Christ wing of the Republican Party ever since the uprising against their attempt to kill Social Security and leave old people destitute. They had gotten themselves so cut off from the American people in their little corporate think tanks and ad agencies, that they lost contact with what our opinions are and, like capitalists, did not care. You cannot beat people into submission forever with no consequences in the political arena, where we will have our chance to respond, the way they do in the corporate world, where you never do. They stupidly took on the most educated and civic-minded group of all when they went after older people, and they got the backlash they deserved. That generation had spent their whole lives going to PTA meetings at school, volunteering for or contributing to the March of Dimes, reading League of Women Voters background information on candidates and issues, calling or writing to the City or a corporation to complain. They know how government should work, and what they, politely, will not tolerate. There was something seriously wrong this time with the Republican "radar" for picking victims they can get away with attacking.

The Schiavo thing, though, was unbelievably bizarre--they were totally insane, cult-like, to have even started this thing. This was truly the Anti-Christ wing of the Republican Party. For all the tragedy of this family's medical crisis, the whole problem was that you didn't know what she wanted or if she had expressed it. The parents not wanting her to die, and no doubt (understandably, I think) angry at the husband's betrayal of her during the marriage. Was the husband telling the truth and this was what she wanted? Will they be able to tell for sure what was the cause of it all, at autopsy, and will people even believe it after all the slanted coverage? After all this painful thinking about this tragedy--the fact that, no matter how the parents wished, Terri Schiavo was probably never aware of them in the hospital room--along come the corporate criminal Repubs, riding down from the hills, waving Cease and Desist orders, and blathering about how they will save this "useful advertising prop" as if the multitudes would all cheer. The sadness and complexity of this issue had people on all sides of it not knowing what they would do, and suddenly these "issue framing" idiots are railing against--something; and waiting for cheers for--something. All I could think of was, "What the hell are they doing?" They are going to USE this horrible tragedy?.. Sure enough, all the polls show a real, true reaction against these people, and their media can't even cover up for them completely anymore.

This is the most hope I've had for years, and all we have to do is act normal.