Imagine a seventh rate political satire that's ridiculous and not plausible at all. That could be the US in ~6 months or so.
Once the crazies crash the economy they can scream stuff like...
The Jews destroyed the economy!
Satan and the demoncrats helped the Jews!
We have to end Social Security and the other entitlement programs to save our country!
The devil is here and we must become a Christian nation immediately!
If their messaging is right - a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe them. It's insane but it's where we are as a nation. They are post-sanity and post-reason. All they have is their rage and their conspiracy theories.
Once the crazies crash the economy they can scream stuff like…
They already say this shit. They've been saying it since Reagan. Some of it since Eisenhower (dismantling New Deal programs has been pretty big on Republicans' radar since the 50s).
I guess the difference between then and now (the Cool Zone(TM)) is that the ones just trying to rile up the base are all dead or retired, and we're left with the true believers that were created in their wake.
They don't, they want to use the threat of it to force the Dems to cut Medicare and Social Security. They've done this before, but no one really believed that they will go through with it (they didn't). That is where the entire sequestration thing happened.
Because government spending bad, government bad, if the government implodes then corporations can fill in the power vacuum - that’s the ideological justification
The real pragmatic reason is that it gives the crazy rightoids more leverage to play chicken and make demands
If we default on the national debt that's A Bad Thing, so they can use the threat of that happening as leverage to obliterate the funding for what little public services we have
:jesse-wtf: why would they want to default on national debt?
Imagine a seventh rate political satire that's ridiculous and not plausible at all. That could be the US in ~6 months or so.
Once the crazies crash the economy they can scream stuff like...
The Jews destroyed the economy!
Satan and the demoncrats helped the Jews!
We have to end Social Security and the other entitlement programs to save our country!
The devil is here and we must become a Christian nation immediately!
If their messaging is right - a sizable percentage of the GOP base will believe them. It's insane but it's where we are as a nation. They are post-sanity and post-reason. All they have is their rage and their conspiracy theories.
They already say this shit. They've been saying it since Reagan. Some of it since Eisenhower (dismantling New Deal programs has been pretty big on Republicans' radar since the 50s).
I guess the difference between then and now (the Cool Zone(TM)) is that the ones just trying to rile up the base are all dead or retired, and we're left with the true believers that were created in their wake.
The children of the suckers who fell for the red scare bs.
ah well then. yeehaw :deng-cowboy:
Feels like that should be illegal
In any sane country YES it would be, this is not that country though.
They don't, they want to use the threat of it to force the Dems to cut Medicare and Social Security. They've done this before, but no one really believed that they will go through with it (they didn't). That is where the entire sequestration thing happened.
Because government spending bad, government bad, if the government implodes then corporations can fill in the power vacuum - that’s the ideological justification
The real pragmatic reason is that it gives the crazy rightoids more leverage to play chicken and make demands
If we default on the national debt that's A Bad Thing, so they can use the threat of that happening as leverage to obliterate the funding for what little public services we have
:yea: