but I'd place it as starting at least as far back as FDR. The capitalists hated FDR for his New Deal laws, and they've never forgiven the Democratic party for enacting them... just like they've never forgiven us for LBJ and the Civil Rights laws. A lot of the names in the news today (and especially those in W's term in office) were brandishing their chops back before Nixon. I'm talking Cheney, Feith, and others who were instrumental in making the "War on Terror" the absolute clusterf*ck it was.
Iraq and Afghanistan stand as two nation states where the repubs tried desperately to make the government and the country into their idealized versions of what the U.S. should be. It didn't work there, and it ultimately won't work here, either. When you have pallets of money disappearing into the hands of the biggest, strongest, most violent people, you have no accountability and no gain for your expenditures. It wasn't just the culture of the Middle East that made it impossible to implement Cheney's plans... it was the fact that people found the policies reprehensible and refused to even acknowledge them. It was a humiliating, demeaning, demanding government Cheney wanted instituted. Afghanistan answered with IEDs and more violence. Ultimately, their country became a mess thanks to the Taliban, which we had helped arm and train.
For a good look at what the U.S. is going to look like in a very few years, study Afghanistan and Iraq. Our religious police won't be Muslim, but our xtian dominionists are every bit as bad, and in some cases even worse, than the taliban extremists. Under these conditions, expect everything to be stripped from us women. We will be prisoners in our homes, just like our Islamic Sisters. This, despite the fact it takes the salaries of two people working to just keep a family's head above water.
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