Are We Headed for "Romney-Land"??
As the United States Senate escapes from the T.V. cameras to contemplate its bowels, we continue to feel the water rise, and our sense of "drowning" as a nation increases. For some of us, since the 1980 election of "Ronnie"; and for everyone else, after 9/11; a sense that something is seriously and fundamentally wrong in our nation; has been with us.
After losing his bid for the Presidency in 2012, Mitt Romney appeared before CPAC http://nation.foxnews.com/mitt-romney/2013/03/15/mitt-romney-s-full-cpac-2013-speech, and told the following to continue their assault on government from our state-government level. Last week, the 50th state passed "concealed-carry" gun laws. The Congress recently defied more than 90% of the people and refused to deal with gun control. You don't have to be paranoid to suspect that there is a stealthy coup underway in this country today. The U. S. Senate is beginning to look like the "Alamo"!
If we dig deeply, we will find the "root" that runs back to the old, southern, white "gentlemen" who dominated our government since our founding. Power and assertiveness of blacks and Hispanics, is growing. Curiously, those two groups were the people hated most by those combatants in the Alamo. As for the Senate; the Senators from the South (Graham's "Hell Hole"), cannot be considered "gentlemen".
Senator McConnell laments that these are "dark days" for the Senate. We can wonder if he is taking credit for that condition, or complaining that, unlike the House, the Senate still functions.
In Romney-world, the "53%" would rule over women and minorities, while making dissent impossible. From gun laws, to women's health, to voter suppression; we can no longer deny that we are in the grip of a nation-wide movement.
Unlike the shooter in Connecticut, the shooter in Florida, after being allowed to walk free by local police, has appeared before the nation and the world in a jury trial. The trial proceedings, thanks to the individuals who fashioned and conducted his defense, took us all deep into the psyche and mind-set of our white citizens, emphasizing their fear of black males. The picture painted is both pathetic and despicable! It does not portend a very peaceful future ahead for the citizens of this country.
Media and Politics are twin forces that continue to "torque" our society to its breaking point.
Stay Vigilant! Romney-Land; Do we need to "go there" ?
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