The election results this November will be horrifying. [View all]

[dawg]

I expect Obama to win with around 52% of the popular vote. Think, for a minute, what that means:

It means that 48% of voters are willing to support a party that wants to radically transform our society. We already have one of the weakest safety nets of any industrialized nation. Romney and Ryan would shrink our small safety net down to a spider's web. They would take us to a place that no modern democracy has ever gone before - to a world where families are, essentially, on their own.

In a sane country, Romney and Ryan would not get over 30% of the vote. Certainly no high-profile business leaders would be backing them publicly. The only other first-world politicians with views this extreme are European fringe-party candidates.

Focus groups, when shown the details of the Ryan budget, simply refuse to believe that it's true. But it is true; that really is their agenda.

If more than 40% of my countrymen vote for these plutocrats, I'll be horrified. Democrats, all sane people actually, need to go into full-fledged battle mode in order to educate people about the radical nature of today's Republican Party. The time for remaining silent is over. The time for false equivalencies is over.

There is nothing conservative about proposals to radically alter a society's institutions and completely upend the current social contract.