Republican New Guard To Decide The Losers of The Great Recession
There comes a point when you have to realize that not everybody can survive in the new economy. The post Great Recession America. And so it’s time to choose who gets a seat on the life boats and who gets left behind to go down with the ship. Republicans have had a prepared list ready to be pulled out should this time come and they‘re pulling it out now.
I’m afraid I’m on that list ladies and gentlemen. I am a victim of the Great Recession and my financial wounds still fester. I am no longer of any use to the cash flush psychopaths who now run this land where supposedly every man is created equal. However, do not pity my misfortune because I certainly don’t. I’m man enough to accept my fate but I cannot condone the treatment of those being left behind with me. The elderly, poor children, wounded veterans, unemployed and underemployed, and minorities are also being designated for reassignment.
Who makes the rules around here anyway? I watch a lot of CSPAN so I know it’s the new Republican Guard who has been sent to Washington to clean house. They are not there to fight corruption in Congress; they are there to replace those who drag the free market down by championing the equal rights bestowed upon every American. We won’t recover from this economic slaughter on the rock of equality. A lot of people are going to have to be left behind and the new Republicans are here to once and for all crush those who don’t have the cash resources to save themselves.
Of course there is nothing new about this. It is the way the world has always worked. What was new was that this country once upon a time was a place where people did reach a new high in equality. Of course hundreds of thousands had to die in a civil war and people had to form unions and resort to violence just to get a day off. We had to go through the disgrace of a civil rights movement and women had to fight just to get the right to vote. Apparently, people forgot and were misled into believing they did not have to fight for their status of equal and when their resistance waned the old guard is rushing in to undo what generations of people fought to achieve.
And so now we will travel back in time to a place Republicans believe the real America existed. A country of small businesses where everybody was self sufficient and there was no need for social programs like Medicare and unemployment. There were no taxes and government was just an institution that kept blackies in their place and out of sight. But that is fantasy. Where they will really take us is back to Dicksonian London, a place where Ebenezer Scrooge begrudgingly gives Cratchit Christmas day off.
I know history so I know what to expect over the coming decade. What is sad is that it is not just the economic decline of America; it is a rejection of our basic beliefs in who we thought we were and what we stood for. I thought I was special because I was an American. I believed that because of this idea of all people being equal. It coincided with my Christian beliefs of the lowest among us being the ones our Lord cared for the most. But this current ravaging of the innocents is foreign to me.
And so now the tables have been turned upon me. The Republicans looked nostalgically back in time to a place where their vision of America flourished and are in the process of reviving it in the here and now. I’m now the one looking back nostalgically to a time when Americans would fight to demand to be considered equal and not subservient to free market pirates.
