How Can You… Oh, Forget It
September 13th, 2015
6 years ago today I asked, “How can you belong to this party and not be horribly ashamed?”
Jesus. If I knew then what the GOP is like now, I would probably have had a very different perspective. At the time, I could hardly have imagined them being more insane than they were then.
Now I know better. What scares me is, what will we be looking at 6 years from now? Just thinking about it scares the crap out of me.
I’ve been back in the US for 15+ years now and it has indeed changed a lot, not all for the better.
This is inducing a lot of stress in people.
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=1QYl
shows how we’ve just begun to recover from the 2008 crash, job-wise, 6 years into the so-called recovery.
Since 2000 we’ve gone $8T into debt in terms of foreign borrowing
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/intinv/intinvnewsrelease.htm
and back then the national debt was $4T in 2014 dollars, now it’s $10T:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/graph/?g=1QYw
Everyone is thoroughly bamboozled now and nobody has the first clue what is really going on. News and information has been silod and bullshit is order of the day.
25% is reactionary christo-fascist of the Huckabee / Cruz mold.
Ben Carson is a creationist idiot. The GOP congress is a mirror of our idiot electorate. We hate congress, but we send these idiots to DC because we are too stupid and uninformed to understand what is really going on.
Hint:
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CP