Degrading Democracy: Count the Ways
Republicans are doing more than try to win elections next year. In both presidential primaries and Congress, they are undermining the kind of American government that people are literally dying to emulate in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world.
The Presidency is in its second round of insult to injury as Sarah Palin follows Donald Trump into making a circus of the selection process, taking a free ride to pump it for personal publicity with no clear intention to take part in it, even as Michele Bachmann lowers the bar with an Iowa no-show, sending instead a video praising Trump.
If by some off-chance she does run, Palin will have made a bad joke out of the most important decision American voters have to make—-choosing who will repair the economy, send young people to war, name Supreme Court justices-—based on wisecracks and hoopla at motorcycle and pep rallies.
In Washington, the GOP is turning the legislative process into the same kind of farce as Mitch McConnell, in the face of rising public opposition to the Ryan Plan, blandly holds Medicare hostage to budget and debt-ceiling votes vital to preserving American credit throughout the world.
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6 Responses to “Degrading Democracy: Count the Ways”
So much more important as a real cause of concern is the demagoguery and dumbing-down we see, both with entitlements (denying there are problems, insisting nothing be done to them, depicting smarter people who preach and seek reform of these), and with, for example, tax policy (tax the rich = class warfare) and corporation-bashing (currently, the Evil Oil Companies).
I guess that the left had rather focus their attention of irrelevant, has-been politicians such as Palin, Santorum, or Trump than focusing on real issues where the Democrats have all of the control. I guess it is more fun for progressive instead of making posts about the Obama Administration ignoring the war powers act, or making posts about how the government can possibly affect private job creation, or making posts about how to eliminate the $1.5 trillion dollar annual budget deficit.
The Obama Administration is going to add more to the national debt in four years than the Bush Administration added in 8 while unemployment is going to higher in every month of Obama first four years than it ever was during the 8 years of the Bush Administration .
And, Dems seem to be running from economic reality. Schmucks, we are going broke, and you want to throw another shrimp on the barbie.
Yes, Reps can be ridiculous in their support of fat cats, but they sure do make nice targets for the other dem, demagoguery. Throw grandma over and they’re killing Medicare (matches the “death panels”). Makes me sick listening to ALL politicians.
The truly sad thing about Palin and Trump is just how popular they’ve been at times with the republicans. Of course once the R’s figure out they are being embarrassed by their champions, they want to change the subject and act surprised that not everyone is quite ready to forget their breakdown in judgement. In any case, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time before republicans find a new focus for their next group swoon, and the process will be started all over again.
Looking for an accurate fact in your post above. Nope, none there.
You have to be kidding. It’s an old dynamic we’ve seen repeated over and over. Examples abound – some of those objects of GOP love even get elected! The obvious recent example of that is GWB, who republicans have been particularly anxious to forget… not that I blame them.