After the Tuesday massacre Obama wasted no time in continuing to alienate progressives. He nearly immediately announced that more troops would be sent to Iraq and has spent the past week slithering around the Pacific selling the highly secretive TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) which is another job killing corporate giveaway. He has also renewed the vitriolic and lie-filled Putin bashing after a brief hiatus in a signal that the great neocon rebooting of the Cold War is on again. The reviled and demonized Russian leader got the message and is leaving early from the G20 summit after being set upon by the yappy little attack poodles of Uncle Scam, notably the fascists Tony Abbott and Stephen Harper, either of whom could stand in for Norsefire Party Chancellor Adam Sutler in the movie "V For Vendetta". These dumb bastards just won't quit until their idiotic and childish games end up getting us all incinerated in a nuclear exchange and the jousting is only going to get worse in the coming presidential race.
The imminent TPP deal is especially vile in that it indicates a degree of collusion between Obama and newly crowned Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell who are on the same page when it comes to screwing Americans over for their corporate benefactors. McConnell is taking fire from the right though so he has now launched the smokescreen of Obama's "War on Coal" after dear leader wandered off the reservation with his recent climate deal with China. This is the truest barometer of just how batshit f*cking crazy that America has become in that every goddamned thing has to be a "war". There is the war on drugs, the war on terror, the war on women, the war on obesity, the war on Christmas and far too many other "wars" to list here. What it all amounts to is a war on everything that was once decent in this country as well as a final pitchfork in the ass of anything that it was alleged to have once stood for. Why not just admit it that the war on stupidity was lost long ago. Our pathetically failed political system is a damning testament to that.
So now the perfect storm is coming for the Democratic party as it currently exists under the abominable master plan of running as less overtly fascist Republicans and cherry-picking special interest groups for votes. The turnout in the mid-terms was reportedly the lowest in 72 years and there is a reason for this that goes beyond the obvious voter suppression tactics and deluge of corporate money. As I recently wrote in my piece "The Democrats Got What They Deserved" the party has grave problems right now due to years of fecklessness, deal-cutting and betrayal under the stewardship of Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. The term "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" has been used by the right-wingers with great effect when it came to vilifying the French for their less-than lockstep support of neocon wars of aggression. It could more appropriately be applied to the Congressional leadership of the Democrats, particularly with Mr. Reid who is already carving out a big wedge of limburger to nosh on in the new GOP controlled Senate.
The American nightmare continues but don't expect to wake up anytime soon because now all that the Republicans have to do is keep their sh*t together and come up with some sort of message that appeals to a marginally bigger slice of the demographic pie and they will control the political system for generations. They may not even have to do that considering that the Democrats are hellbent on hitching their wagon to the "drearily soulless, principle-free, power-hungry veteran of DC's game of thrones" that is Hillary Clinton. It was her hubby who wedded the Democrats to corporate and Wall Street interests and it is only fitting that she will be the one who finishes the job of destroying the party that used to stand for FDR style economic fairness before it sold it's wretched soul and sold the rest of us down the river in the process.
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