Our liberal democracy had become too “liberal” for them, so they decided to “re-educate” all of us in the proper, superior neo-conservative way.

Thus, they started buying up and consolidating their control over the mainstream print and broadcast media, while gutting the Fairness Doctrine.

They started buying up and consolidating their control over the radio airwaves, leading to neo-con-run companies like Clear Channel promoting Christian rock crap on radio stations around the country.

They’ve pushed for turning our public schools (or their alternative voucher schools) into “re-education camps” aimed at our nation’s children.

And on college campuses, a similar “re-education” campaign has been launched by neo-conservatives like the “Operation Yellow Elephant” College Republicans and neo-con fools like David Horowitz.

Recently, I read where a neo-con-run company out of Arizona is buying up liberal, progressive, “alternative” weekly newspapers around the country (like the Village Voice) with the goal of “re-educating” communities along neo-conservative lines.

And I won’t go into the attempt to turn the U.S. Air Force Academy into a neo-con wetdream of a conservative, religious fundamentalist terrorist “re-education camp.”

In other words, what the neo-con Republicans are doing reeks of totalitarianism. Thus, the reason why I compare their attempts to the Reds and their “re-education camps.” Anyone dissenting from the Red’s right-wing Communism party line, or advocating for a liberal democracy, were sent to these Communist “re-education camps.”

We see this same conservative push in the United States today, but it is the self-proclaimed anti-Communist Republican Party who are pulling this totalitarian stunt.

However, I’m too old to be fooled and too ornery to be “re-educated” by a bunch of neo-Communist Republican fools. So, they can stuff it. They can take their anti-democracy, anti-Christ dictatorship agenda and shove it. Like I said, I’m not fooled…no matter how hard they try to cover-up what they are doing with a smiley face.

Americans have an ideology, they are not in need of a right or left wing ideology; it is the protection of our rights, freedoms and opportunties. People sometimes forget that freedom in America was not given it was fought for, and the need to continue the fight goes on, because when and where people are not protecting it there are others who will be encroaching on it.

Some people are insatiable for power. It is these insatiable ones that the system of government was designed to protect the people from. That is, at least, one intent of the Constitution. There would be no reason for it to exist if not to protect the powerless from the powerful, the slow from the fast, and the charitable from the greedy. Although, the concept is only useful if one begins with the premise that America belongs to all Americans, and that all, (OK–most) of its citizens have dignity.

A political organization cannot long inspire its members if it begins with the idea that all men are corrupt. Because all men are corrupt they deserve the negative circumstances that they find themselves in. It is every man for himself. The coward’s way out. It is an excuse that pemits them to say that they were being prudent.

Beginning with such a perspective the only path open is down. It appears to be the perspective of the right wing and the Republican Party.

They have had the opportunity to advance their incredibly short-sighted policies, and they have failed. It’s time for some fresh blood.
If experience and so-called stature bought the American people the current situation; would it be possible to do worse.

Sounds too much like “cytokine storm” like reactions to me.

The cure is worse than the disease.

Don’t Fence Us Out!

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….why do I have the feeling that things are about to get real strange? I’m predicting a good week ahead for newshounds.

I love the image of the President fishing his freshly stocked pond coupled to the image of the Vice President hunting freshly stocked fields in Texas.

For both of them. Good times. The best of times.

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Jane, this is why we have a EPU’d Zone! Direct that traffic here. Especially if you’re going to be doing the same kind of re-routing every Sunday.

Cheesh! What’s a guy gotta do?

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