"This is Obama’s old promise — no red states or blue states, only red, white, and blue states. An economic cold war to wave the flag and declare unity of purpose. Maybe.
The hard right won’t buy it — when Democrats say investment they hear spending. Of course, they are not really interesting in cutting deficits per se. It is for them a means to an end, and the end is making the nation and the world fully conservative, eliminating social responsibility in favor of personal responsibility alone, eliminating empathy, increasing militarism, establishing an unregulated purely laissez-faire free market, and maintaining a dominance hierarchy of western over nonwestern culture, Christian over non-Christian, white over non-white, straight over gay, male over female.
The hard right talks jobs, spending and the deficit, but their economics is based on the culture war. That’s why the culture war is back. Legislation to end any support for abortion, defund NEA, NEH, and NPR, end public education."
George Lakoff (via azspot)
The Hard Right always amazes me how consider themselves Americans, yet want to end all successful American ideals. Social Security is an American invention. They want to end it. The best idea we have had as a Nation, one that works better than anything else for over 80 years, they want to destroy. The paradox is truly upsetting.
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