Division in America

A dysfunctional Society

America is divided

Who and what set us on this divisive path? Certainly it wasn’t de Progressive Liberals who turned this country of ours into a Socialist Oligarchy. It is clear that the accusations of the far right are not just unfounded but ridiculous. When we hear them say that the Liberal Progressives want a class war I just get angry. A class war they say and it is the Extremist Far Right Republicans who have been eroding and hurting an already beleaguered Middle Class.

Redistribution of Wealth is what they are saying, not really taking into consideration that the REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH has already taken place: it has gone from the poor and the middle class to the very wealthy and the corporations. The Republicans assured this outcome by systematically giving tax cuts to the rich and even subsidies and give aways.

The general attitude from Republicans as we have seen is that they should block and do everything in their power to make the present government and President Obama fail so they can take it over once again and set us on the same destructive path as before.

It is no longer a secret nor do they even try to mask it or hide it. The Republicans represent the interests of the wealthy and want to screw the middle class. We had a perfect example this week with one Senator blocking very important legislation that would have extended unemployment benefits. Never mind that he took this stand because he said “it is the principle” but to do so with people’s only way of financial income is downright insensitive and cruel. There was even one of his buddies that said that why give them unemployment extensions, that only encourages them to not go out and look for work.

It is always amazing to me that the Republicans begrudge a few million dollars to help those less fortunate in our society yet they have no qualms about spending billions in an unnecessary war they got us into and they even lied to us and the world in order to benefit the oil companies. Our deficit is so high because of these wars, our financial chaos was caused by their incompetence and the millions of people affected by this should never forget who caused their grief.

Yet, Republicans and the ultra right conservative pundits are accusing our President of being a socialist. I ask you this: If President Obama was a socialist, would he not have nationalized the banks when they went belly up? They were bankrupt and nationalization of the banks would have been totally acceptable. Also, when the car companies in unison announced they were about to go into bankruptcy, the U.S. Government could have also taken over and nationalized them. Obama was very clear on this and he said: (paraphrasing) that he had no intentions of taking over nor did he want the car companies to be in government hands.

I don’t know if you are aware, dear reader that the Castro brothers has declared President Obama to be on top of their “blacklist”. Now, if he was a Marxist-Socialist as these wing nut ultra right fanatics claim, do you think that the Castro brothers would have been so unkind?

We Democrats, progressives, liberals and the otherwise sane general public should get off our collective asses and tell the Republicans that we are not going to take their bullshit anymore. We are going to pass whatever legislation is needed to make sure our country survives and the poor and middle class can thrive again.