Comments Posted By Don Kenner
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Good post, but I think the contradictions of Republican policy have paved this road we are on. We bristle at National Healthcare, but offer no alternative to National Education, with all its dismal consequences. Bush increased Federal spending by 69%, but his supporters tell the country that only fiscal conservatism will preserve the good.
Your average Republican voter (as opposed to ideologue) is going to wonder why he has to pay for other people's crap while remaining prudent and self-sufficient in his own life. Eventually he asks himself, "If we're going to have democratic socialism, I may as well get mine." He isn't rich, but he has to pay the costs of other people's failures (prison, welfare); subsidize other people's lives (eduction, corporate subsidies); and clean up the messes of very stupid and venal people (Enron, bank bailouts, etc.).
Where's the REAL Republican opposition to any of this? Or the real opposition to Jihad, for that matter? It doesn't exist.
So we go back to tending our own garden. But if this is best that Republicans can do, then it really isn't worth the fight.
Comment Posted By Don Kenner On 5.11.2008 @ 08:48
