Yeah, we'd better just forget about ever having Universal Health Care in America.

[HughBeaumont]

14. And before we retake state legislatures . . . .

. . . we need to magically reverse 45 years of Red-baiting, victim-blaming, fearmongering hate-radio programming targeting white rurals, suburbanites and elderly that made the current electoral climate possible. Oh wait, that's right, we CAN'T.

Take, for example, Ohio. The Republicans (for the most part) have controlled the State Legislature for two decades, with just a minor loss of the Representative control in 2009, which they quickly regained. Now why do you think that is, despite Ohio being one of the hardest hit states in the Great Recession, their manufacturing base all but decimated and lagging behind in the post-G.R. economic recovery? How, exactly, do "we" (as if my vote's going to matter) overcome the long odds that led to gerrymandering and retake this mess?

Think What's the Matter With Kansas, substitute "Ohio" and it's pretty much the same thing.


This nation has no political will to provide for it's citizens and all the political will on the planet to provide for the people and entities that least need it, and it's high time America starts to bite some bitter goddamned pills and own up to our unevolved and self-consuming future.