OK. Here’s the situation. Economists worldwide agree with the background facts:<\/p>\n
Eight years of Bush policies, including deregulation of Wall Street, banks, tax breaks for the rich, and corporations’ offshore and outsourcing policies resulted in a major depression. So we elected a Democrat to fix it.<\/p>\n
The past two years, the Republicans have blocked every possible thing the President has tried. The Republicans have voted, as a bloc and in filibuster, to keep any proposal from the Democrats from passing. Even ones which were originally Republican ideas. For example, tax breaks for small businesses.<\/p>\n
Also, Republicans have blamed the President for things that were clearly results of the Bush Presidency: for example, TARP and the decision to not prosecute those two or three guys calling themselves the “New Black Panther Party”. They even tried to blame him for causing the BP Gulf Oil Disaster.<\/p>\n
And the Republicans are proposing: more tax breaks for the wealthy, repeal of limitations on corporations, repeal of the first real almost-universal health coverage… and are currently leading the polls in most areas. (We’ll know the outcome for sure on Tuesday.)<\/p>\n
The Republicans — and their media mouthpieces, such as Rush and Glenn — are of course not racists. Granted, racism is the only explanation for their activities which meets the simple test of Occam’s Razor, as they have worked with previous Democratic administrations (and Democrats have worked, perhaps TOO well, with previous Republican administrations). They each and all scream to high heaven if you call them racists. Their constant blame of the Liberal Media (which, if you haven’t been noticing, is mostly owned by Conservatives) for these claims sounds more than hollow, but it must be true; Rush said so. So did Glenn.<\/p>\n
So there must be at least one other explanation for these moves on the part of the Republicans.<\/p>\n
It was hard, but I found one.<\/p>\n
Fluoridation.<\/p>\n
Radical right-wingers have been saying since the 1940s that adding fluoride to drinking water was a Nazi\/Communist plot to make the populace stupid.<\/p>\n
They were right.<\/p>\n
Or Republicans really are racists. Our President is no shadier than the last 8 Presidents we have had, has actually made more forward-thinking suggestions (which have to be passed by Congress, of course) than the last three. If you don’t hate him because he’s black, why would you vote for Republicans with their current plans, the same ones that got us into the current mess and have stonewalled plans to get out of it?<\/p>\n
Fluoridation makes people stupid. That must be it.<\/p>\n
You think I’m wrong? <\/p>\n
Prove it on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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