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Thirty-five years ago Ronald Reagan went stumping for himself and preaching the false dogma of “trickle-down” economics. Sadly, he succeeded in selling that idolatrous religion and the trickling down turned out to be a vaporous mirage for poor and middle-class Americans, while floods of cash inundated the already wealthy. Funny how conservatives find wealth redistribution to be abhorrent, except when it’s redistributed to them.
Meanwhile, Reagan’s voodoo economics continues to be promoted by the Republicanistas under various names, but the program is always the same. And the conservatives’ reverse Robin Hood scheme is just one of the harmful programs the Republicanistas have succeeded in embedding into America with self-aggrandizement as their focus. Gotta believe that took some planning.
For example, we know that a bunch of congressional Republicans met on election night, 2008 and decided that their policy moving forward would be to oppose everything that President Obama would favor. There was no concern for the harm that would be done to Americans by their diabolical plan and they have made that cruel strategy stick even to this day.
Indeed, they have opposed the very healthcare, gun safety and diplomatic policies they had previously championed just so that President Obama wouldn’t have any victories. They have held all Americans and all of America hostage by opposing every program that might have promoted the creation of millions of good paying jobs for Americans and would have accelerated economic growth that would benefit everyone. Then they criticized the President for not having created those jobs. The oddest part of this is that the very people who are suffering because of all the Republicanista “Who cares about you? It’s all about me” behavior – ordinary Americans – have been propagandized and twisted into supporting the craziness that harms them.
In short, the Republicanistas have been extremely good at keeping their vision clear, sticking to their policies and strategies and they have produced exactly what they wanted to produce: They have maintained power even when they were not in power and they have the fat wallets to prove it. Clearly, some decades ago a bunch of smart people got together and mapped out this grand, self-serving vision and the grunts in Congress have done a masterful job of doing their part to promote it and make it succeed for them.
The results for 99% of we 314,000,000 Americans have been devastating, which begs the core question: Is anybody doing any long term planning for the rest of us? I’m not talking about knee-jerk reactions to the latest jerky thing some flame thrower said. I’m not even talking about important issues, like having a solid and sane immigration policy. This is about a much higher level of thinking and planning than that: Where is the leader who has the vision? What is s/he doing to create a decades long march in the right direction?
Hello – is anybody there?
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Ed. note: There is much in America that needs fixing and we are on a path to continually fail to make things better. It is my goal to make a difference – perhaps to be a catalyst for things to get better. That is the reason for these posts. To accomplish the goal requires reaching many thousands of people and a robust dialogue. Please help by offering your comments, as well as by passing this along and encouraging others to subscribe and do the same. Thanks. JA
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