Rabid Republicans Just Don’t Get It

While I fully understand that some people are confused and scared that the recession came on so suddenly and has been so drastic, I am mystified by the bizarre extremes some Fox News Republicans are approaching. The loony Glenn Beck has now made an all out call for “Tea Party” protests where, apparently, barely educated, book-burning idiots meet in bars to protest…. uh… what exactly??? (Video of one meeting here.)

There’s some kind of massive disconnect between Republicans who claim to support a free-market economy and those same Republicans who don’t realize that their worldview supported the investment bankers and hedge fund owners who broke ZERO laws in the latest financial meltdown — because under those same unregulated free trade laws, all that over-leveraging and super greedy profit-raiding isn’t illegal.

So now that evil old Obama is in power, he’s a socialist. Are these same rabid people proposing some solution other than “teabagging”? These people clearly do not understand that the government redistributes wealth for the common good ever since it’s inception.

I am less than comfortable with the bailouts, since I feel that the Federal Reserve and fractional reserve banking could use a serious shakedown. I don’t like the fact that, from my middle-income position, it looks an awful lot like those bailouts are all about political “friends” covering the asses of their banking “friends.” All in the name of free trade. These Fox News fools would rather starve than give undeserved money to poor people or immigrants while giving gobs of cash to bankers is only wrong once the godless Obama started doing it. Bush and Paulsen couldn’t help it. They were forced to do something to help the citizens. But Obama? He’s definitely trying to make the country communist. Obama is practically the anti-Christ.

Yeah, you go on ahead thinking that way. Me? I can’t believe what a good president Obama is. I still wish we had a deeper democracy with less wealth disparity and a smaller federal government, but Obama is just doing so much right.

For more Republican crazy, see John Stewart…

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