How Dems Allowed the Tea Party to Rebrand the GOP

[Lars77]

Run time: 08:54 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_SBvwyW7E   Posted on YouTube: November 01, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheRealNews Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: November 01, 2010 By DU Member: Lars77 Views on DU: 2705

 

[bbgrunt]

1. exactly. Loss of the middle class means that

there are very few "common interests" on which to build consensus of any kind. And, sorry to say in spite of what Jon Stewart would like, if us common folk don't take up the fight, we will simply be steamrolled.

[savalez]

2. +1

(especially the Stewart part)

[2critical]

3. Teabaggers just turned in their bedsheets and torches for 18th century costumes...

Really. They are just a wing of the Republican Party. The hate that dare not speak its name.

Nobody in their right mind thinks of the Republican Party as "populist." It is a subsidiary of international corporate capitalism. Period. There is no populism to the Republican Party. Bigotry? Yes, tons of that. Does the Republican Party have anything for the middle, working, and lower classes? No. The Democrats? Precious little. A true populist party would be anti-corporate, anti-international business. Does that fit the Republican Party? No.

[Red Knight]

4. He nailed it

and the sad part is that he's also right about holding your nose and voting for the elite you think will do the least harm. It's not like we're going to fix that hole in the sinking ship--we're just trying to slow the leak. It's still going to sink.

No critical thinking in America. We're propaganda sponges.

We're easy.

[swilton]

5. K&R @ 1,000

[meowomon]

6. He got it Exactly.

[denimgirly]

7. Expect a lot of DUers to Unrecommend this

Half of DU thought those were each a good thing which still baffles me.
My guess is that this half just doesnt want to believe that Obama is more center-right and is more eager to look to what republicans want than what its base wants.
I think Obama wants to be progressive but just doesnt have the fight for it...which is sad.

[destes]

8. "I think Obama wants to be progressive but just doesnt have the fight for it"

Perhaps. The president is a complex fellow. I think that, due to his intellect, the information glut he gets in his position is clogging up his thinking. It's unfortunate that he must view the world through the lens of "National Security" 24/7. The cacophony of all those pandering, witch hunting militarists who have insinuated themselves into the executive is, I expect, deafening or at least profoundly distracting from needful meditation, political survival.

It's my opinion that the office of POTUS is impossible, unmanageable, antique. The myriad concerns of a large nation are enough for any single entity, much less those of a "world power".

[NJCher]

12. antiquated

It's my opinion that the office of POTUS is impossible, unmanageable, antique. The myriad concerns of a large nation are enough for any single entity, much less those of a "world power".

Do you recall that book that came out--probably a decade ago--that broke the U.S. into five distinct regions? I think it was five, anyway. It was based on demographics, regional culture, etc.

I agree with your comment. Things could be so much better if we had five "countries" and no single person at "the top." It is antiquated and technology has made it worse, not better (ability to spy on its own citizens).


Cher

[krkaufman]

9. Yup. I've been waiting for an advertisement highlighting ...

... cigarettes aren't any less deadly after Phillip Morris changed their name to Altria;

... Blackwater is still a counterproductive, extralegal mercenary force, regardless of a name change to Xe;

... and stale old Republican policies of tax cuts and deregulation will be just as destructive when ushered in under the banner of the Tea Party.

[TheeHazelnut]

10. "he gave them back the keys to their Lamborghetis?"

I don't think there is such a car as a "Lamborgheti" -- guess he meant "Lamborghini."

[dotymed]

11. Our only choice

is to rise and break our chains. Fuck the elite. Do most Americans believe there is an "afterlife?" and things "will be different there?" That is what they count on. It is called "The Opiate of The Masses" and allows them to own us "in this life."
How many virgins are you getting?

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[The Backlash Cometh]

14. Because the two elites are more concerned about protecting each other's powerbase,

we must all learn to live like victims.

Until we learn to hold our elected officials accountable, and that means investigating wrong-doing, this country for you and me is like trying to walk across mucklands.

[Uncle Joe]

15. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Lars.

[felix_numinous]

16. Wow great commentary

and and accurate rundown on what may have been the last chance for solutions to be made by the government against power abuses. There is a clear indication that the solutions needed will not come from within the government, there must be too many obstacles inside the system.

There are many fine people working within the government but they are too greatly outnumbered or outgunned apparently.

[and-justice-for-all]

17. Some rebranding...

Hateful, militant, misinformed, angry, ravenous...etc Brown Shirts. Congrats, they are now officially on par with Nazism.

[avaistheone1]

18. Sobering

Real News Network lays it out.

[soryang]

19. Taxes on the rich should have been increased in 2009

When they didn't do it, they revealed themselves for what they were, the representatives of the rich investment banking and insurance class.

When he left Gates as secdef, the state within a state that never changes and never yields in the drive to world domination remained in contol of government and out of control internationally and legally. They don't care about their debt or deficit or current accounts because that is where the fascist globablist bankers make all their freaking money, keeping the taxpayers in infinite debt and relative poverty while they amass untold riches.

So by 2012 we will have gone through an ostensible period of democratic party rule with a Reagan tax structure and no fundamental health care or finance reform and still have the largest defense budgets in history and several Orwellian wars in Eurasia.

[BrklynLiberal]

20. Heartbreakingly superb and accurate analysis...

The White House needs to see this and view it over and over and over...

Too bad no one told all this to Obama and his administration a couple of years ago...
If the changes could not have been made in the past two years, I fear they will never be made.
we will return to the days of the robber barons...and worse.

The thought of what lays ahead of us makes me physically ill.

[SunsetDreams]

21. K&U "How the Dems caused a Resurgence in the Republican Party""

would be a more accurate description of this video.
Disgusting.

[SemperEadem]

22. Or better still: "How the lack of a spine and conviction in Democractic leadership caused

a resurgence in the thug party".

Dems like Kucinich, Grayson, Weiner, and Franken get it. The rest of them don't.

[NJmaverick]

23. .

[subsuelo]

24. Really good analysis. n/t