But is otherwise dead fucking right about Mitt Romney and what a Romney administration would look like.
Comes now this pure piece of manufactured product, this vacant
replicant of American plutocracy, to lecture a country in the middle of a
fragile recovery from an economic disaster brought on by the other
soulless replicants on the topics of our vanishing work ethic, and the
great moral cleansing power of onrushing poverty. And, because he cares
less about the country he's planning to lead than he does about the next
nickel he can squeeze out of it, he's doing so with rhetoric that owes
more to George Wallace than it does to George Romney, who was a decent
Republican in the days before greasy-beaked vultures like his spalpeen
hijacked the party. (Which is pretty much what E.J. Dionne was saying
recently.) Willard is working the old poor-people-are-robbing-you-blind
melodeon again while his real targets are anyone who receives any kind
of federal government assistance of any kind whatsoever. And don't fall
for the old "states do it better" dodge. Willard knows full good and
well that the states can't carry this kind of load, either, and that the
costs will just get passed down to lower and lower levels of government
until nobody can pay for anything, and the programs that he'd like to
see eliminated because it will help him get elected simply disappear.
He is the real austerity candidate, the guy who will run the ball
here for the banksters who are crippling Europe, and a lot of Europeans,
with economic strategies that keep themselves afloat while children die
of preventable diseases, and guaranteeing that whatever recoveries
there will be in places like Ireland and the UK will be the sole
property of the people who most deserve them. This is what Willard
Romney would like to bring to America. He just has to convince enough
people that the pain will be imposed upon the undeserving Them. It is a
vicious puppet show of a campaign he's running.
Year after year we are told that America is just like a big business, and that all we need is the right cult hero CEO to run it (cue to exhume Steve Job, or Steve Forbes, or whoever). Been there, done that, it always turns out to be flat out wrong for 99% of the country. Besides, do you really want the assclowns who blew up your economy and your mortgage and got rich doing so to have more power than they already do?
No thanks.
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