The Obama Overthrow of the Reagan Revolution

[Peacetrain]

I have seen many polls in the last couple of weeks, showing Obama up one day, and down the next. All very typical for this time in the election cycle.

Obama and Dean have pushed the 50 state concept.

As an Iowan, we have had our party take over the governorship and the Iowa house etc. Seeing how we could take Stevens seat in Alaska as example of one, it is important for us to look not only at the top of the ticket but the down tickets.

That is the genius of the 50 state strategy. Not only will we get the top of the ticket through the traditional population states, but we can get the congress also through the 50 state strategy and this will give us the opportunity to actually push through some of our priorities. This moves itself down to state governorships, state senators etc, where our next generation of pols will come from.

Also, getting our young voters into the party politic, they will be with us for many years.

We are about to implode the Reagan Revolution with the Obama Overthrow.

Thank you Dean for being the visionary, and thank you Obama for having the tenacity to carry it through .
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[whistle]

1. Just what the fuck was the reagan Revolution anyway?

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Published on Friday, June 11, 2004 by the Seattle Times
Reagan's Destructive Revolution
by Walter Williams

Amid the mountains of praise and the occasional criticism of Ronald Reagan, what may be his most lasting legacy remains hidden. He led a political revolution that radically altered the American system of government and its key institutions.

The revolution began in 1981 under the banner of Reaganism — Ronald Reagan's anti-government, market-fundamentalist philosophy that now dominates American political thought.

Yet, it is best labeled the "Stealth Revolution" because pundits and the public, after nearly a quarter century, still appear to be unaware of its existence, much less the damage already done. The deleterious changes have stayed under the radar.

Be that as it may, a revolution is in full swing. President Reagan's two terms put it on course; Reaganism sustained it for the next 12 years; George W. Bush, Reagan's disciple, re-energized it with a vengeance.

Following the tenets of Reaganism, Bush has led the most undemocratic American government in the post-World War II era. It well may be the least democratic government since 1789.

The result is that the national institutions created by the Constitution to support representative democracy have been disfigured. America has become an entrenched plutocracy where the wealthiest individuals and major corporations unduly influence government decisions to reap benefits at the expense of ordinary citizens.

A modern-day Rip Van Winkle — falling asleep just before Reagan's inauguration and awakening today — would be amazed to find that the political revolution has eaten away much of the foundation of the American republic during his hibernation. The Stealth Revolution has succeeded to an extent unimaginable a quarter century ago.

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http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0611-08.htm

[Peacetrain]

2. Well for one thing, you can thank the Reagan Revolution

for all the beginnings of deregulations that have led to food safety issues illnesses and deaths we have been dealing with in the meat industry as well as produce items like tomatoes etc!!

[cliffordu]

3. DING DING DING We have a winner.

Exactly right.

[Merlot]

4. The "regan revolution" was the assult on and destruction of the middle class.

Everything else (corporte greed, environmental standards being diminished, union dismantling, etc) was just frosting on their cake.

[Peacetrain]

6. It has always stumped me, how people idolized

Reagan. The way he went after the unions was unbelievable. But they had targeted who the democratic base was, and they were going to destroy it. In the meantime, they took out some of the underpinnings to the American dream. Yep the middle class

[Cha]

5. The 50 state strategy is pure and simple

genius that requires immense dedication not just money.

A toast to Dean who pioneered and Obama who perfected and together they are planning our Dem Convention to celebrate the last night on the anniversary of MLK's I Have A Dream speech to a capacity of 76,000 patriotically jubulient Americans.