Will it stop global warming? Will it solve the health care crises? Will it rebuild the crumbling infrastructure? No it won’t. It will just allow these monumental problems to continue. When I run into people who might start with those talking points spewing from Palin and McCain, I’m going ask them if hate ever solved a problem.
It’s very clear to people who have been on the fence about the radical right and their fringe elements, that they can’t be ignored anymore in the name of some bull crap economic policy. The results of doing so have manifested in the problems stated above.
It also very clear to some of the same people that they have a choice, an unfounded fear shaped by prejudice or ignorance, or a very real fear of economic, social and environmental devastation. Rational people will chose to rise above it, and for those who don’t, they never will I’m sorry to say.
It’s a huge moment right now. One that represents a fundamental shift in the way people view the world. Look at the myths and stories of the past and you can see some of the enormous lessons that we have the opportunity to participate in, and create a positive outcome.
We can help slay greed and all that goes with it. I’d like to think it’s karmic, and we have this opportunity now work to change the dynamic that for so long has held some many people down. The moral of this unfolding story rests with us all. Embrace it, and fight for it, and know that you did your part.
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Bingo
I’m lucky: I’m not retiring for quite some time, and I think will have time to recover.
Our economy will recover, but it’s going to take awhile. As former Pres. Carter stated
Bush fanned the flames, but the fire was lit long before.
Yes!
Funny how everything FDR did to save the economy during the Great Depression is being called Socialist. Social Security was to expensive to do during the Great Depression today National Health care is.
Raising taxes on the Wealthy and capping CEO’s salaries that would kill our economy the GOP screams but FDR did it to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt
Hate during a Depression however created Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia
We are ALL going to have to work together to help solve this gigantic mess we have made. Spewing hate and fear-mongering does nothing to find solutions, indeed, it only makes finding and implementing them more difficult. My late husband observed once that the Republicans are ’sore winners’. Even though they had the Presidency, and control of both houses of Congress, they are/were never happy with that. They continued shrieking and whining during that whole period about how they were victimized by the ‘Democrat Party’ and since the Dems took control (nominally) of Congress – the whining and screeching has intensified. Now – it looks like they are losing the White House, and even more seats in Congress and look where we are.
Sickening.
I contrast the video of that line of people yesterday making all those nasty remarks to the people on the other side of the street while they waited to get into a McCain rally with the photos posted at DKOS of the four rallies Obama did in Philly yesterday. Couldn’t be more different than if they were on different planets.