What VALUE does the RIGHT offer US??
I have had a love-hate relationship with TIME Magazine ever since 1957, when, as a college Freshman, I bought my first subscription. Some of that relationship is reflected in correspondence from one of its early editors. This year's Person(s) of the Year edition is one I recommend highly.
One of the writers cites the Obama era as a clear demarcation as the end of the Reagan era. Thank whatever God you worship for this, if it turns out to come true!
At this writing, when the extreme Right is poised to doom the nation, once again, by pushing it over the Fiscal Cliff, we can all question the value of the right wing in our politics. Reagan, disguising his true "values" in a cloak of "fiscal conservatism" set this country's economy on a roller-coaster boom and bust path. The conservatives who drifted ever closer to their anarchic and racist extreme, are now trying to "sell" guns to us in compensation for their spectacular failure at any type of fiscal sanity. We should have paid closer attention when Reagan went early to Philadelphia, Mississippi, to provide aid and comfort to those engaged in the murder of Civil Rights workers.
Senator Graham of South Carolina, who has to sound more and more like Senator Bilbo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_G._Bilbo in his desperate run for re-election, represents the price our country pays if we continue to tolerate this crap in our politics. De Mint had the good manners to quit the Senate. Senator Graham should follow his example. Young politicians of 100% ambition and 0% human decency are the true legacy of Ronald Reagan. (Keep a close eye on the rising number of them, from Virginia, South Carolina, and Florida. The politics of fear and greed are their mainstay.
They offer a corrupt brand of "safety"; kicking that into high gear following 9/11. The more they stoked the fears of white voters, the greater their political success. The second-term election of President Obama may herald an end to this madness. We all know we're not safe, and we will only become less safe, at home and abroad, if we continue to listen to these wack jobs. Let's hope we're seeing the end of the road for them!
Stay Vigilant!
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