Confusion and Delusion

Political pundits are having a field day proclaiming the reasons for the election results. One of the main topics seems to be the public's rejection of the administrations policies. In polls the individual actions are mainly approved of. Even in the much maligned health care bill the various features that folks are asked about are given positive comments. In spite of all that the overall reaction has been negative. What can account for that?

In my estimation the reason is that the Republican noise machine, Limbaugh, Hannity, Beck, and a group of strident female screamers, has so overloaded the media, both TV and print media, that people, who have severe problems financially and are scared to begin with, are panicked by the barrage of distorted information. Then the self righteous Tea Parties proclaim the programs designed to solve the recession as wasteful spending (where have they been the past ten years?) and the government as Socialistic (because it is trying to mitigate the ravages of the Republican created meltdown) and vowing to curtail the size of government and lower taxes.

With all the above it is small wonder that people, who aren't capable of , or don't take the time, to think the matter through react in rage to the "solution" of "throw the bums out". By and large that is a valid solution except the wrong bums got tossed. At least not enough of them got sacked. There certainly are Democrat duds also. To revert to the Republican party for relief however demonstrates the short sightedness of the electorate. At least with the Democrats in control things would have had a chance to move forward despite Republican resistance, now there is no chance for a quick recovery because the Republicans will stall thing for the next two years in order to deprive Obama of any semblance of success. Despicable as that is it appears to be the game plan. That is not hypothetical, that is the avowed aim of Mitch McConnell and Boehner. They are entitled to an opinion but not at the expanse of millions of struggling citizens.

In review it is obvious that the so called "conservative" movement is one of those ideological cults that latches onto a mantra such as " smaller government and lower taxes" and uses it to bemuse many into believing that will solve problems, when in fact it has been the cause of severe damage to the economy and the degradation of our critical infrastructure. The prime example of that is the Bush tax cuts during two costly simultaneous wars. Johnson did the same thing during the Vietnam War, although he didn't lower taxes he didn't raise them to pay for the war either. This lead quickly to high inflation that took years to correct.

In addition to all the shenanigans of both parties we have a supreme court that is out in right field. First it enabled Bush to grab the White House. Now it has allowed corporate funds to buy representatives. Obviously there is a lot of work to do. Unfortunately there is no one on the horizon likely to do it. I could fantasize about a James Bond Martini Party ---Shaken, not stirred