The GOP Whack-A-Mole game

[LiberalEsto]

Doesn't it look like we're being slammed from all quarters? If it's not threats to collective bargaining and pensions, it's threats to womens rights including the right to choose, or Social Security.

There are threats to the LGBT community, Muslims, immigrants. Services to the poor, the mentally ill, the disabled and other vulnerable populations are being slashed. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Genetically modified foods are popping up everywhere.

Name an issue that concerns progressives, and you'll find that the Repukes are busy stirring it up to a fever pitch.

You see, they want to keep us busy.

If I'm busy fighting genetically modified food, I might be too busy to deal with cuts in mental health services.

If you're busy fighting to keep your right to organize a union and bargain collectively, you may be too busy to fight to save the right to choose legal abortion.

That's the way the GOP likes it. They want to keep us too busy to notice that Social Security is being destroyed, or that homeless shelters are being closed for lack of funding, or that needle exchange programs are disappearing.

We can't allow ourselves to be splintered into one-issue resistance.

In order to win this fight, progressives have to come together to recognize that the destruction of one group's rights diminishes the rights of all.

Please, folks. I know some of us disagree with other people on DU. Can we focus on the real enemy?

It will take many mallet wielders working together as a team to successfully whack all the GOP Whack-A-Moles into oblivion

[RandomThoughts]

1. Just go for the casters in the back row.

And you get all the problems solved.

For instance, through all the hype of legislation that takes months, or news stories that takes weeks, weather about important issues or not, the concept of going after the consolidations to break them up, and correct the injustices and inequities causing so many problems are always the target through whatever front topics they throw out as fodder.