Sometime I wonder if there's some connection between the last 30 years' trickle-down economics, which has proven time and time again to be a complete failure, and the 26-year drug war (begun the day Len Bias died.) Both have served to cripple the country in general, yet spiral the wealthy into the uber-wealthy (with the added bonus of locking up as many black men as humanly possible) since of course private prisons pay. I'm not smart enough to do it myself, but I feel like there are some dots to be connected there. I feel like these will be a stretch in history worth studying a few years from now. - XMASTIMESully forgets the Drug War, but lays it out nicely:
And they have shrewdly concluded that the last few years have shown that unregulated capitalism can be a serious problem, that markets do not automatically govern themselves, that the ideology of three decades ago might need revisiting in the face of the catastrophe of the Bush-Cheney years, which all but exploded the logic of neoconservatism and its domestic partner-in-crime, supply side economics. One was voodoo foreign policy, the other voodoo economics. Reality - simple empirical reality - exposed their glaring flaws.
An actual conservative will learn from this and adjust. The raving loons in the GOP base - precisely because they have no serious thinking behind them - will double-down on their fantasies, empowered by partisan hatred. And that's why the GOP needs to be defeated this fall. For the sake of an honest conservatism.
The problem is that as long as they can keep stupid people from holding them accountable, Republicans seem to like being flies in the ointment as much as they do anything else, so there's no reason for them to even think about governing responsibly as long as the same 6 dudes are getting richer and richer all the time. They can just rinse, lather and repeat with the same shit no matter how many times it's proven wrong. How many more times is Michele Bachmann gonna be elected? Prolly till she stops running.
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