Well, now we live with it.

[lunadelcorvo]

It seems we have a Republican house, and are damn close to having a Republican Senate, or at least a Senate with no clear majority. This is no real surprise, although it is a bit of a disappointment. However unrealistic, I had rather hoped for a surge of 'not gonna let it happen' from the Left. (Rand Paul? Really!? You thought this was a good idea? SRSLY!?!)

So now what? If the GOP is as uncooperative as they have promised they will be, I suppose this will be a few years in which there will be a terrific noise and bluster, and little real action. There is of course, talk of impeachment, but I hope I am not optimistic to say I think that threat has no real weight behind it. Clearly, the White House will be able to get nothing done, which is to say that it will accomplish even less than it has so far, which isn't saying much.

All in all, I'd rather have a mid-term shift than a term-end sweep. At this point, I guess the best possible thing is to hope that the Tea Party Right make such collective asses of themselves that even the mouth-breathing, slack-jawed, knuckle-dragging electorate in this country will have no choice but to show them the door for a good long time.

I just wonder what this place will look like by the time people figure out they've been had?

Comments

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

It's all turkeys voting for Christmas. I can't believe how counter-intuitive it is for the average person to vote for Tea Party right-wingers. They've never done anyone any good, and it's precisely their policy direction that has got us all in this mess...

[raven-moon.livejournal.com]

"turkeys voting for Christmas" I like that! And it's just the way of it. I think it's a generational thing, going back to the post WWII idea of the American Dream. The people who support the Tea Party (and who think Obama is a socialist) are the ones who grew up believing that anyone can be a millionaire. They all bought that whole musical number about the plucky kid off the streets who can, with hard work, some smarts, and just a bit of luck, make it big. They don't want to limit the rich, or the corporations, because they are still somehow convinced that it will be them someday. They really, honestly believe that the 95% of the population that holds 5% of the wealth are just lazy or they'd be rich, too.

Think about it: take the 'anyone can make it big' myth of Beneficent Capitalism, and combine it with the neo-Calvinist Prosperity Gospel, and you have a toxic combination that's just begging to be used and abused by Corporate America and tossed aside like last night's Trojan. And if the environment, the health care situation, the homeless, the ever-growing poor get totally fucked up in the process? Well, too bad too sad.

[primitivepeople.livejournal.com]

They all bought that whole musical number about the plucky kid off the streets who can, with hard work, some smarts, and just a bit of luck, make it big. They don't want to limit the rich, or the corporations, because they are still somehow convinced that it will be them someday. They really, honestly believe that the 95% of the population that holds 5% of the wealth are just lazy or they'd be rich, too.

I'm amazed at how many people buy into this simplistic crap. It may have been true once - although I dispute that, because it may never have been true - but it certainly isn't now. Social mobility has all but disappeared - the rich have worked out how to ring-fence their wealth and keep it away from the poor. "Trickle-down" is a fallacy, and it's amazing how many people fail to see that.