Here are two facts for the Right Wing to remember:
- Nazis in WWII Germany were Right Wing. They denied the rights of minorities and discriminated against certain people in their country, demanding they carry papers with them at all times: does that ring a bell?
- The Republicans fought tooth and nail against the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s. In fact, when LBJ, a Democrat, signed Civil Rights into law, most Southern Democrats immediately jumped parties and became Republicans.
So jump to 2010.
- You can’t label Left Wing political parties and liberal-minded thinkers as Nazis or fascist. Those are Right Wing ideologies. Just because your base is not smart enough to tell the difference does not give you the right to completely lie about it.
- You can’t reclaim a Civil Rights movement you were, and have been, diametrically opposed for the past 50 years. It is not yours to take back because you never had it. And never will. Again, if your base is too ignorant to understand these facts, it does not give you the go ahead to completely make shit up.
Stop the lying and willful misinformation. You have more in common with Right Wing dictators throughout history then you care to remember and you despise equality of all kinds, ranging from race to gender to economic to your most sickly addiction, religion.
As a Nation we need you to own up to your past, not completely forget the facts of who you are. Part of why we can’t move ahead is because you can’t admit to what you have done. Not looking for a massive apology, just know on a personal level where you stand.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
GOP Revisionism Has To Stop
Friday, September 03, 2010
Outsourcing The War: This Has Rumsfeld And Cheney Written All Over It
Blackwater Worldwide created a web of more than 30 shell companies or subsidiaries in part to obtain millions of dollars in American government contracts after the security company came under intense criticism for reckless conduct in Iraq, according to Congressional investigators and former Blackwater officials.
via nytimes.com
The Bush Administration had no foreign policy, no exit strategy: just made sure all their friends in the "business of war" good paid.
Blackwater was not just killing Iraqis, they were making a killing. Who did not see this coming?
100% Of Zero Growth Is Zero: Why Progressive Taxes Work
Cenk Uygur: God bless ‘em. It’s America, we all wanna earn one billion dollars. The question is, does it make sense for society if they get to keep a disproportionate amount of that or if we can create more opportunities for more people to earn a billion dollars, if we redistribute it for education, etc.
Robert Reich: Cenk, you’re exactly right. My position is, even the rich will stand to to do better if they have a smaller share of an economy that is growing very fast, than if they have a big share of an economy that is basically static.
via brooklynmutt.com
The point was also made that one fund manager's $1 billion income per year could finance 20,000 teachers. We are a society that will go out of it's way to create and maintain wealth for the uber-rich, yet bring an entire economy to its knees when taxation on the same uber-rich might rise 3%.
You need an entire society to grow, not just the top 1%. You need customers. You need orders. You need investors. You need capital to develop new ideas. You need growth. Shrinking everything Federal and decreasing the flow of capital, while increasing income disparity, in a expanding population is just crushing any domestic growth for the future.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett get this idea. While no one likes taxes, paying your share is good for the whole economy. Nothing trickles down. That is a fact.
James Lee: When Crazy Goes Wrong
One of the demands from the Discovery Channel Gunman:
Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it.
via oliverwillis.com
This guy was definitely nuts. And although some of his causes were left-leaning, I don't think he got his encouragement to be violent from the liberal mainstream. Getting out your gun and "taking aim" at your opponent are all part of the current Conservative and Tea Bag message.
So while his craziness seems non-partisan, his violence-as-solution is very much is step with the call to arms messaging from the Right. Jusssayin'.
Serial Iraq Misinformers Find Home At Fox
During the run-up to the Iraq war, some of the worst purveyors of misinformation about Iraq had a home at Fox News, and their ranks have swelled considerably since then. Media Matters takes a look at the track record of wrong predictions and shoddy analysis about the war in Iraq by many of Fox News' contributors and analysts.
via mediamatters.org
Karl Rove, Dick Morris, William Kristol, Newt Gingrich, Fred Barnes, Stephen F. Hayes, Charles Krauthammer, Judith Miller, and John Bolton are all willfully and pathologically distorting information to serve a premeditated storyline.
Fox has written the script, and these are the actors playing their roles.
Squeezing the Middle Class and Getting Away With It
"So why, then, is the middle class mad at the poor rather than the rich? This is an ironic side effect of the American Dream. Poll after poll, generation after generation, has shown the same thing: most Americans imagine themselves getting rich one day, not poor. They are far more worried about protecting their potential future wealth than worrying about their declining current condition—much less about becoming poor. In addition, Americans have an innate sense that rich people earned it—they did the work, they had the ideas, they should keep the money. This is, of course, sometimes true, but vast amounts of the wealth in the US is inherited by people who did nothing to earn it. The idle rich abound, and are really, really idle."
The Middle Class has to come to grips that the "American Dream" does not always have them becoming millionaires. The real Dream is living in a great society that allows all to pursue happiness. And for that happiness to take place, we all play our part. We don't pass the buck onto the next generations.
The Middle Class can't let identity politics divide them into groups of "us" and "them". United we stand, divided we fall.
Thursday, September 02, 2010
I Long For Debates Like This
Congressman Alan Grayson confronted by a sharp Tea Party protester. No snarky sarcasm, this is a great conversation. We need more of this.
Billionaires Push GOP Populism
via tumblr.com
The rich want to dismantle the social programs for the less fortunate and cut taxes for themselves. At what point does the Tea Bagger making $40,000 realize he is not in their tax bracket and is getting shafted?
Arizona Governor Jan Brewer Loses Her Mind
via brooklynmutt.com
The bar is set so low for Republicans these days. Just say Obamacare, Federal Government, a few other rambling sentences are you're in.
Her opening statement was sheer Palin-esque word salad
Manufacturing Survey Spikes Wall Street
Manufacturing reports that showed growth in the United States and China helped propel stocks on Wednesday, providing an upbeat start to a new month.
via nytimes.com
America is ready. Pessimism from the Right can only last so long. It's time for the Democrats and the Left to push through.
Wednesday, September 01, 2010
The Republican Iraq Victory Lap Is A Joke
"The record is unambiguous. These misguided ideologues made the worst mistake imaginable, and thousands have died as a consequence of their ignorance, incompetence, and hubris. They launched a war for reasons that weren't true, and then screwed up the aftermath in ways that were hard to even imagine. This wasn't some minor misjudgment -- the Republican failures in Iraq carry the kind of human, economic, diplomatic, and security costs that are so severe, they're hard to even calculate."
Watch this Maddow clip to refresh just how bogus everything Bush did in bringing America into war.
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Loyal Bushies like Stephen Hadley, Doug Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton, and Ari Fleischer are all over the media trying to convince America that false intel, lies about bomb/poison gas/WMD facilities, massive civilian deaths, failed foreign policies, prisoner abuse scandals, torture usage approval and trillions wasted somehow equals a victory.
Their credibility is absolutely non-existent.
EARTH TO REPUBLICANS
EARTH TO REPUBLICANS
YOU CAN’T CLAIM CREDIT FOR VICTORY IN IRAQ TWICE!
via brooklynmutt.com
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
The Truclent And Bullying
"The word ‘appeasement’ is not popular, but appeasement has its place in all policy. Make sure you put it in the right place. Appease the weak, defy the strong.”Churchill argued that “appeasement from strength is magnanimous and noble and might be the surest and perhaps the only path to world peace.”
And he remarked on the painful irony: “When nations or individuals get strong they are often truculent and bullying, but when they are weak they become better-mannered. But this is the reverse of what is healthy and wise."
- Winston Churchill in 1950
Watch this clip from 2008. Intellectual dishonesty from the Right in it's pure form.
The least intellectual and least inquisitive are the easiest to radicalize. They believe the propaganda the quickest. No objectivity. No research.
Just like the host in the video clip, he makes a disparaging statement and has no understanding of its meaning. It's mental candy floss and the GOP has a massive sweet tooth for it.
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