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ashtonelijah

(340 posts)
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:27 PM Oct 2012

Even If He's Re-Elected, the Right Will Do Everything They Can to Destroy Barack Obama & His Dream

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For the past year, I've described the current political environment by commenting on the sad notion that there is a significant number of people in this country who truly hate President Obama more than they love America. Maybe it's not that simple. Maybe it's not just that they hate Obama, but that they hate America, too. At least, they hate the America that Obama represents.

It's an America where the land of diversity thrives. It's the America of equal opportunity where all, not just a select few, can dream big dreams and have a shot at a future regardless of what they believe, whom they love, what they look like, how much money they have, or who their parents are. In other words, it's everything they fight against in their policies and everything they find suspicious, vulgar, and undesirable. It's everything they hate.

For the people intent on reverting to a pre-1960s America, "the good ole days when everything was right," their greatest threat isn't just a liberal Democratic president.

Their greatest threat comes from a skinny black kid with a funny name, born to biracial parents, raised in a cluster of cultures, exposed to the Bible, the Quran, and the Bhagavad-Gita alike, who, through hard work and determination, rose to become the most powerful man in the world.

That's not supposed to happen. Such positions are supposed to be reserved for the next in line, the carefully groomed offspring of the rich, the powerful, and the privileged. It's supposed to be held for the social elite, the ones who, by virtue of birth and parentage, deserve it. Someone like Mitt Romney, someone like George W. Bush. Even someone like John Kennedy. But the idea that a biracial child with a funny name should rise to usurp that role is anathema to the carefully established social order that was supposed to endure even the hollow, noblesse oblige puffery for the notion of the "American Dream."

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http://www.deepsouthprogressive.com/2012/10/even-if-hes-re-elected-right-will-do.html
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Even If He's Re-Elected, the Right Will Do Everything They Can to Destroy Barack Obama & His Dream (Original Post) ashtonelijah Oct 2012 OP
republickconism is becoming increasingly irrelevant SubgeniusHasSlack Oct 2012 #1
No worry. Paraphrasing Nixon own self-analysis, they'll destroy themselves with hate. Zen Democrat Oct 2012 #2
Let them try Mojo2 Oct 2012 #3
They can - and will - block any of Obama's appointments Texin Oct 2012 #9
We can keep doing recess appointments to it if we have to Ken Burch Oct 2012 #10
No they won't. This was their big chance Maximumnegro Oct 2012 #14
Then I suggest we destroy theirs. liberalmuse Oct 2012 #4
If, Obama is re-elected, and I do emphasis "if", Texin Oct 2012 #5
yep, we know they'll fight against reforms and the Obama vision of equality for all Divine Discontent Oct 2012 #18
We'll cross that bridge when we come to it Floyd_Gondolli Oct 2012 #6
Not exactly a newsflash. nt. OldDem2012 Oct 2012 #7
Yes, but they'd have a better shot at succeeding if Mittens won. TheZug Oct 2012 #8
That article makes me so terribly sad that there are tears in my eyes. sinkingfeeling Oct 2012 #11
Let "the right" bring it on, then!! MightyAfrodite Oct 2012 #12
Well, in that case... BlueDemKev Oct 2012 #13
WRONG. They will become moderate. Maximumnegro Oct 2012 #15
Your Concern Is Noted, Sunshine. (nt) Paladin Oct 2012 #16
That is why we take back the house too krawhitham Oct 2012 #17
to state the obvioius--what else is new? WI_DEM Oct 2012 #19
Did you read the article ashtonelijah Oct 2012 #22
Won't happen... Jeff In Milwaukee Oct 2012 #20
They will, but he can block their agenda treestar Oct 2012 #21
 

SubgeniusHasSlack

(276 posts)
1. republickconism is becoming increasingly irrelevant
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:30 PM
Oct 2012

due to its obvious sociopathetic motives.

It is impossible to see this in the deep south where the last bastions of unabashed bigotry will linger, but it is happening, and the momentum to marginalize teabagibans is building.

Zen Democrat

(5,901 posts)
2. No worry. Paraphrasing Nixon own self-analysis, they'll destroy themselves with hate.
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:33 PM
Oct 2012

The Republican Party or the GOP or whatever it once was, is GONE. When even the Eisenhower family has left the party en masse, various Reagan administration officials, et al., they have imploded. It's done, win or lose, and it will be lose.

Texin

(2,584 posts)
9. They can - and will - block any of Obama's appointments
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:55 PM
Oct 2012

That's been their MO for the past four years. It was their game plan set forth by McConnell and his cabal on the eve of Obama's swearing in as POTUS.

I used to see more enlightened repugs in the past learn from their overreaching agenda. Gingrich got kicked in the ass during Clinton's term and the rest of the rethugs were a little chastened following the government standstill in '93 that had significant blowback for them because the people were, apparently, a little smarter back then and realized that it was the rethugs that were putting up all the obstacles and letting the federal government grind to a complete standstill. This group of racist, wingnut, religious fanatics has all but lost their mind,s never mind their common sense. I don't see them stopping until they turn this entire country into a bunch of whitebread numbskulls just like themselves. They're will to throw this country under the bus just to promote their hateful agenda.

 

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)
10. We can keep doing recess appointments to it if we have to
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:58 PM
Oct 2012

Might make the court more interesting to have justices rotating in and out every few months.
Hell, even Dennis could have a shot for awhile!

Maximumnegro

(1,134 posts)
14. No they won't. This was their big chance
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 03:43 PM
Oct 2012

and they blew it. The GOP will now shift back to the center. Chris Christie is the canary. Watch how he behaves - this is what you will be seeing. They will crush the wingnuts out and move to moderate. The GOP establishment is NOT the tea party, the tea part is just a tool. Just as they did with Akin, the GOP are going to show who's boss.

liberalmuse

(18,670 posts)
4. Then I suggest we destroy theirs.
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:48 PM
Oct 2012

They love money, so I think that liberals ought to make a mass transfer of wealth away from Republican-owned businesses to Democratic/liberal-owned businesses. Why feed this hate machine? The only thing they really have is wealth which they use to try and buy office so they can pass laws that will enable them to make more wealth for themselves at the expense and on the backs of most Americans.

Texin

(2,584 posts)
5. If, Obama is re-elected, and I do emphasis "if",
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 02:48 PM
Oct 2012

I also predict that the rethugs will continue their obstructionist agenda. That will happen unless they see blowback from the electorate to a number of the teabaggers that have been promoting this agenda the loudest and holding the party captive for the last two years. If there is some turnover in the down ticket races of negative consequence to the teabaggers, then they rethugs might rethink their agenda. But I'm not hopeful about that. I think they'll continue with this because they want to make things so terrible that they believe the electorate will drum out every last Democrat up for election over the next four years because "nothing is being done" - even though it's caused by rethug-teabagger obstructionism.

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)
18. yep, we know they'll fight against reforms and the Obama vision of equality for all
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 05:07 PM
Oct 2012

and we just need to keep reminding them, if he wins (hopefully!), that McCain and Romney aren't the president. But, it's going to take some down ballot action to really make a dent. hopefully we'll get 15 or more seats to help.




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BlueDemKev

(3,003 posts)
13. Well, in that case...
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 03:41 PM
Oct 2012

...we'll have to destroy THEM first. Which is what we failed to do in 2009 when Obama kept holding out his hand to those assholes when they had made it 100% clear they would NOT work with him come hell or high water. The only way to beat bullies is to STAND UP TO THEM and it's time we stopped being so damn nice to our adversaries. You can't work with folks who call you a communist parasite. We need to expose them for the lying, uneducated hateful pieces of shit they are!

Maximumnegro

(1,134 posts)
15. WRONG. They will become moderate.
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 03:47 PM
Oct 2012

They have no choice. The GOP is NOT the tea party. The GOP has the real power and they have already made it clear w/ Akin that they will leave the TPs hung out to dry. The GOP is not stupid. They will follow Chris Christie and lurch to the center. Watch for Rubio to become more prominent as well. Bush/Rubio 2016 is something to fear and that will most certainly be a center-right ticket.

You guys just love to worry. Goddamn.

Jeff In Milwaukee

(13,992 posts)
20. Won't happen...
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 05:10 PM
Oct 2012

For starters, four more years of Obama means that the Affordable Care Act will be fully implemented (with non-profit, government regulated plans as part of the insurance exchanges), and it will never go away. Once people realize what a good deal it is, ACA will become the new "third rail" of politics.

There's also going to be "hell to pay" in the Republican Party. I don't know how it will shake out -- nobody does -- but it's likely to create a schism that will take more than one election cycle to resolve. If the Republican Establishment is successful in taking back the steering wheel, you can looke for a host of Tea Partiers to spend at least one election cycle voting Libertarian, which is good news for whoever the 2016 Democratic nominee might be.

After 2016, history and demographics are decidedly not in favor of the Old Guard. I'm fifty years old, and I'm completely confident that a woman will be President in my lifetime. There's also going to be a hispanic President. Middle aged white guys like me are no longer the Masters of the Universe, and the end of that particular era couldn't come soon enough.

treestar

(82,383 posts)
21. They will, but he can block their agenda
Wed Oct 31, 2012, 05:10 PM
Oct 2012

As far as the House goes, we need to take it back, but if we do not, they still can't get their vile bills signed.

Also having a second term gives them some backlash - if the People spoke that way, they can hardly argue. Maybe that's why they "worry" about all the things they think Obama can do in a second term where you go like if he didn't do it in his first, why wait for the second one?

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