Showing posts with label center left. Show all posts
Showing posts with label center left. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Happy Right-Wing Coup d'etat Day! Sorry conservatives, George Zimmerman won't be joining you

Today is the Day. The Day Right-Wingers have declared their intention to march on DC and Overthrown the Government
On November 19, 2013, a day that will hopefully live on in the history of our once great republic...
Bristling that America is a Center-Left Nation, Conservatives have been engaged in a 5 year plus campaign to undermine the democratically elected President and usurp power, through lies, bigotry and calls for violence.

The problem is the Coup was accomplished many years ago when the Ultra-Reactionary Neo-Feudalist Government was ensconced by the Rich to return the Country to the control of those who own it.

And the Government of the Plutocracy has been wildly successful at fostering Income Inequality not seen since the Gilded Era of the Robber Barons and the Slave Owning Days of the Founding Fathers. While dismantling and destroying any Governmental institution which aids the Poor and Working Class. 

One Right-Wing champion who will not be aiding in the effort to overthrown the Government is George Zimmerman, who was arrested again. For Domestic Violence... again. With a gun... again.

The reason the Right latched onto and defended Zimmerman was because Conservatives love when black children are murdered and because right-wingers deemed Zimmerman the Vanguard against President Obama.

While conservatism is not in its' "last throes" what we are witnessing is the slow end of undeserved white male privilege and it's not pretty.

The end of White Male Privilege is perhaps the third most dangerous threat facing America, far behind gang crime and Capitalism, but way more dangerous than Islamic Terrorism.

However, it's only going to get worse as the years roll by and the demographic shift continues.

And expect to see more Sovereign Citizen murder of police officers and more young black women shot in the face for ringing a doorbell, and more Open Carry Gun Nuts waiting in ambush for unarmed women and more white supremacists following those people around in order to Take their Country Back.

Craig Cobb Leith North Dakota
When you see Open Carry gun nuts walking around in the alert
or admin carry mode, think potential mass shooting.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

A Landslide Victory for President Barack Obama. This is a Center-Left Nation.

332 Electoral Votes. 3 Million more Popular Votes and rising. Ohio, Virginia, Florida and all the other true battleground states. Five of the last Six Presidential Elections have been won by Democrats.

This is a Liberal Country. A Center-Left Nation.

We need to hammer that home to every day to combat the lies of Faux News and Toxic Conservative Radio, which will work to undo the clear liberal mandate handed to President Obama.

But, President Obama faces big challenges now.

First up is Sequestration and the "Fiscal Cliff". Centrists and Republicans will demand Austerity and point to the big divide in the American populace as necessitating The Grand Bargain.

The American People just overwhelmingly rejected The Ryan Buget and the politics of Austerity. We are tired of 30 years of the Republican Economic model of Pissing Down Our Back and Telling Us it's Raining Prosperity. This is a clear mandate to eliminate the Bush Tax Cuts and Reaganomics.

We said No to the Right-Wing model and President Obama needs to say No. The President doesn't need to move halfway to meet the Republicans.

The Grand Bargain is giant screw-job for the Poor and Middle Class. We need to resist, resist, resist. No  cuts to Medicare, No reductions to Medicaid, No stealing Social Security for degenerate Wall Street gamblers to flinch.

We need tighter and further regulations on Wall Street. We need to re-empower the SEC. We need to readopt a Financial Transaction Tax to curb the rampant speculation and Hedge Fund gambling associated with Wall Street. President Obama needs to stand next to Senator Elizabeth Warren as she battles for the American People against the Vultures.

The American people did not vote for cuts they voted for much higher Taxes on Millionaires and Billionaires, the elimination of tax subsidies to Oil Conglomerates, effective collection of taxes on Giant Corporate tax cheats, and fair taxes on Capital Gains and Income made by investments.

We need to impose tariffs on foreign made crap, let's make IPhones here in the United States,  and punish the Wal Marts and Bain Capital which make money drowning the American manufacturing base and off-shoring jobs.

The Housing Market is still a shambles. Getting out from under the rubble of the Bush Housing Bubble and Republican Recession is going to take time. Austan Goolsebee stated, we have 5 million vacant houses and $700 Billion in negative housing equity. Housing is huge problem.

Next is getting us out of Afghanistan and actually Reducing our Foreign Empire and bloated Warmonger Budget. We need to close bases around the world, we need to scrap wasteful spending on a blue water Navy, we need push to reduce the Drone Campaign. We need to cut the fraud, waste and abuse of the DoD by $500 Billion.

Our involvement in Libya needs to be questioned. And I don't mean Benghazi. Benghazi and Libya are part of a Covert CIA Operation. Republicans aren't going to delve too deeply into it because the more they expose in their baseless partisan witch hunt the more blowback they will create for US abroad and for Republicans within the Intelligence Community.

But, Congress does need to step up and take back control of Military involvement overseas. This is a huge problem as Presidents have expanded their control and played word games to get around the power to declare War invested in the Congress. But, this Congress and previous ones are also culpable because of the Trillions they've given to profligate warmongers and because they are afraid to stop paying to the DoD and Pentagon.

Right now is a time to take a few celebratory victory breathes. Unfortunately, there is a lot of work to get America going away from the policies which aid only the Wealthy and Powerful and make this a country reflect the Liberal Ideas that the American people hold.

Update:
This rejection of the Right-Wing went further than just President Obama's landslide. Republicans Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin, Tommy Thompson, Denny Rehnberg were all decisively defeated in the Senate. Elizabeth Warren trounced Tea Party darling Scott Brown. Two of the biggest incendarity Republican bomb throwers, Allen West and Joe Walsh, were kicked out of the House. While the straight talking Alan Grayson was voted back in by a 2-1 margain.