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That people like Louie Gohmert win election in completely safe districts is the problem. The vast majority of the Republicans in office have no clue how the legislative branch is suppose to work, what their actual job is or even what they are voting on is the problem. That so many are basically there to be there until they can move to their upgrade lobbying positions or join corporation boards is the problem. I can't remember the last talking head republican that didn't sound like a bunch of 1 sentence lobbyist talking points. That's the problem. The sad thing is people like Gohmert and Michele Bachmann are reasonably will educated people... yet they sound like talking head morans. Why? because they think their job is to parrot thin tank and lobbyist groups and not to think for themselves and their actual constituents (who they have zero interest in or respect). That's what the political system wants and that's what they give them. Until voters demand better, stronger candidates the total fails of this country, like Rand Paul, will keep this country from any type of American Exceptionalism
Ayup, we're just all plane stooped and need you to tell us so!
Thanks for "pointing this"!
I agree with you on this for what it's worth.I would also suggest Nadin, that there also exists a huge disconnect between the white collar professional working class and the blue collar working class in this country that prevents any kind of working class solidarity.The same type of exceptionalism that you speak of exists there also,causing that disconnect.Under the much spoken facade of ,"we are all in this together", lies an underlying disdain that flows right below the surface.Many(not all) of the intellectual professionals objectify the blue collar working class as the uneducated masses who must be molded to reach "their" level of enlightenment on all things political and in life.Somehow the thoughts,feelings,ideas,and life view of the blue collar people are to be taken with a grain of salt and dismissed out of hand as the views of uneducated,backward thinking people, who have not advanced as there more enlightened brothers and sisters have.There is little difference between objectifying people based on race,sex, or people doing it to separate themselves politically,intellectually or financially from their "lessers" and it exists in both political parties.
It is absurd and ridiculous and serves absolutely no purpose but to divide and separate any possible worker movement in this country for better conditions for all of us.The working poor,the blue collar people are trying to smash the windowns and kick down the doors to escape the burning conference hall while the "middle class" intellectual professionals are giving lectures on civility and how to proceed to the exits so as not to cause too much damage to the owners of the building.
As far as fear goes,most people in this country are never going to move in any direction that moves away from the free market capitalist viewpoint until they are hit smack upside the head with a large dose of humility and poverty in there immediate family and those close to them and and forced to reassess whether profits are more important than people.You can hardly blame people for that,when it is the only system they know and are led to believe from birth that any and all Socialist,Marxist,and Leftist ideas are the workings of evil incarnates and childish outcasts with a jonesing for bloody revolution.
Much of the Democratic party has moved so far right that they refuse to even listen without marginalizing with disdain and derision, those who reside on the left.They deny the powerful voice of the Leftists who rail against a system that is destroying the working class in this country.And for what Nadin?A better spot on the upper deck of a ship that is bound to sink anyway with their kids and grand kids on board?
I'm hoping the DU grammar police don't get me on this one Nadin
It was the first time blue collar and white collar were in the same boat
