Red Mapping

[SamIam]

Originally Posted by tw

Understand what is happening here. McCain expressed it once he listened to Supreme Court arguments. Purchasing government is now legal. Anyone can now spend as much as they want to purchase influence and power. No restrictions exist. Those with the deepest pockets are now preparing to spend where they could not spend due to now 'all gone' restrictions.

Americans are protesting for four weeks. It was about time. Majority Leader Cantor is therefore calling them a mob. Not protestors. Not patriotic Americans. He is calling them a mob because the rich are getting richer while common Americans are suffering almost tens years of reduced incomes.

The Tea Party Protesters were called "American citizens exercising their rights to free speech and freedom of assembly." The protesters on Wall Street and in various American cities are indeed called a "mob" and even accused of attempting to push the country into civil war. They are also accused of being "anti-capitalism," "anti-free market," and, of course, engaging in "class warfare." Guillotines, anyone?

The far right does not want to have the status quo questioned - especially now that the supreme court has made it so easy for corps to buy state legislatures and members of congress. The elephant in the living room that the right refuses to discuss is the fate of our country. They would have us believe that tea party ideology is more important than jobs for our people, education for our children, medical care for ALL our citizens, and programs which help the elderly and the disabled to live with some human dignity.

Taken to its extreme, right wing ideology will turn the US into a 3rd world country with all power in the hands of a small, extremely wealthy elite backed by a powerful military (you will notice that the right wishes the military alone to remain unscathed by any budget cuts). It is disheartening, to say the least.