The Great American Choice

No -- The self-destructive inanity that is FoxNews.

 

It is not like we have entered progressive nirvana. Nearly half the voters opted for Romney. The new health care regime is Republican in conception and will need major reworking over time. Wall Streeters are high in the Obama administration that has disturbing practices when it comes to individual rights related to the war on terror. The situation for unions continues to be grim (as emphasized by the perfidious events in Michigan), GOP redistricting is allowing them to win state legislature and Congressional majorities with minority votes, and an apparent mechanism for reforming campaign financing is lacking (although one has to admit that a whole lot of right wing PAC money went straight down a hole for minimal return on investment). Conditions for blacks and other minorities remain unacceptable. Gun laws are absurdly proheater (although households containing guns continues to decline). Americans remain unable -- unlike some progressive 1^st world nations -- to achieve the fiscal discipline needed to tame the debt. Carbon dioxide is building up fast. Murdoch will keep running FoxNews as long as it is one of his cash cows and he has control of the entity. Nor is the reactionary right and their Republican Party going to collapse over night, and Occupy was a too brief and too internally flawed flare up (although it did have significant political and cultural impact that helped reelect Obama).  

 

But no two ways about it. We are getting there. The United States of America is becoming increasingly like the rest of the 1st world as it drops some of the conservative-libertarian inanity that have made it the socioeconomically least successful prosperous democracy, in favor of the progressive polices that have proven to work in the rest of the west (http://www.epjournal.net/filestore/EP07398441_c.pdf).

 

It's kind of fun watching the right run about in panic as they realize they have lost the cultural and political wars and are doomed to increasing irrelevance. Their dream of   "taking back" the country has gone up in vapor. It's their fault for living in their bubble of unreality.

 

 

 

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