Cannonfire "Strange Days Indeed": "...Once again, we face the old problem: When Republicans are in power, they can (usually) vote like Republicans without fear of losing power. But when Democrats are in power, they must vote like Republicans. Conservatism remains this nation's ideological default position.
We would have been much better off if McCain had won. As long as conservative propagandists can pretend that unregulated laissez faire is an untried ideal, we will never have a return to Keynesian sanity. Since 1980, this nation has remained in psychic thrall to the ideas and ideals of Milton Friedman. We've been hypnotized. Four years of Depression with a Republican in the White House might have forced us, finally, to snap out of our trance. Instead, we're going to get four years of Depression under Barack Obama -- a sell-out whose tepid half-measures have been ludicrously branded 'socialist...'"
No comments:
Post a Comment