Actually, in the last month or so I've seen a couple of articles from economists on different news sites like CNN and MSNBC warning that the world economy may be close to collapsing.
Of course you saw that, because Bush and the GOP are in control.
Reminds me of the Reagan days...ABC, NBC, and CBS (all we had back then really)...would run those non-stop soup-line stories. They'd complain about the massive defense spending, then cut right to a story about the homeless. I was young, but I was a geek and I watched the news and I remember. Yet, during Clinton, the poor were buying homes, and the future of mankind looked bright and prosperous.
Check this out.
In the 1990's we had a market boom with a market high. Most of the media attributed this directly to Clinton and his god-like genius. DOW highs were seen in articles and headlines that would imply that the wealth is going to trickle down (how hypocritical being they hated Reagan's trickle down economics).
Fast forward to today. Our market is at an all-time high. It isn't being credited to Bush. Many articles have said things like "Market all time high, most Americans left behind" and to that effect. In other words, market is doing great, but it's only for the rich cronies at the top - but that wasn't the case during the Clinton days
As if the liberal progressives and their mass-media bias isn't enough, we have the libertarians who are the prophets of doom and the saboteurs of the rightwing.
These guys hate everyone because they aren't a real party and will never gain power so they have to accept their "business model" as appealing to those who are disgusted and choose to disengage from the process and criticize from a distance. They aren't remotely serious about being a political party, but rather offer a service for the pissed off and dejected people who feel betrayed by the corrupt system we have.
Many libertarian sites are constantly discussing this massive economic collapse...but it doesn't come. I guess if you say it for 40-50 years, and when or if it happens, then you can claim you were right
I am suspect of the libertarians, because for being such free-market types, they seem to hate Republicans a whole lot more than Democrats. The vitriol and the viciousness wasn't as high toward the socialists as it is toward the GOP. Makes you wonder how many of these libertarian sites and organizations are funded by the Democratic Party???
Reading many libertarian sites, many of them were former Democrats - not former republicans.
That's a great strategy you know. The GOP did it to the Democrats with the Green Party, but the leftists have woken up and they realized that voting Green is like voting for the GOP. Something libertarians obviously don't get.
Another thing to note is that the leftist progressives have not run away from the Democratic Party...they instead worked on reforming it and now they've taken over it. The Democratic Party isn't your grandfather's Democratic Party (not that it makes them any batter back then, but maybe a little). This is the party of Soros, Michael Moore and all the most nasty socialist mini-Hitlers and Bolsheviks.
Some right wingers would say that with these politics, they'll never win. I disagree, if people always voted on principle, that would hold true, but for some reason the American people feel the need (collectively) to change regardless of the situation because they believe that change is good, even if things are going well. At some point along the line, you have to switch gears, regardless of speed, and not care if you destroy the tranny.
Given that, they will eventually elect these leftist scumbags and they might do it this year.
So in the end, the progressives won. They reformed their party and they've waited it out until they got in. Perhaps we should reform the Republican party, then wait till we get in?
In 1994 and all the years after in which we've handed the GOP victory after victory, we elected the Republican part as-is. We never worked to reform it into a more libertarian minded party. Never. Not one bit. Despite this, they've been pretty darn friendly to the RKBA. Compared to their days in the 1980's.
Maybe we can learn something from these neo-Bolsheviks? Because the way I see it, voting for the Republicans now keeps our RKBA intact as is, but it doesn't move us forward, voting for the libertarians gets us more gun control because we're just handing over the election to the stalinists.
