Griping that things used to be better than they are now is stereotypically conservative behavior, but Daily Kos blogger Anakai proved on Sunday that liberals also are capable of nostalgic rambling (in their case, about the good old days before ignoramuses voted Democrats out of power).
In a post headlined “Just Curious: What Made Americans So [sic] Fearful and Stupid as They Are Today?” Anakai contrasted bygone decades of liberal-driven progress with our current era, in which the prominence of Republicans such as Paul Ryan and Rand Paul suggests to him that “the American people genuinely don't care what happens to this country or, for that matter, their own world anymore.”
From Anakai’s post (bolding added):
[A]fter a ten year-long struggle to repair the damage from the Depression created by republican oligarchs -- American resolve, industriousness and grit fought a world war on two fronts and won…Americans designed the fastest aircraft ever built in the late 1950s and a short time later figured out how to send men to the moon and explore it -- in person -- within ten years...
We built dams, canals and bridges, wired an entire country for electricity, created what used to be a world-class entertainment industry out of nothing and built an interstate highway system…
We used to be fearless, aggressive and strong in the pursuit of progress…
We used to legitimately pride ourselves in our standard of living and quality of life with a robust Middle Class that fueled the world's most powerful economy based on demand…
And my point? None of the people taking the country down this regressive path of neoconservative destruction could have been elected without the "... advice and consent" of the American People.
Just what the hell happened to us as a country? Greed can't possibly be the only reason...our history has several examples of greed being defeated by the will of the People when the powerful wealthy elite attempted to financially enslave the Many. And 9-11? Nobody shuttered their windows and locked their doors when Timothy McVeigh blew up the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City…
It's inconceivable to me how today, in this modern age of mass access to information, people like Scott Brown, Rand Paul, Bobby Jindall [sic], Paul Ryan, Saxby Chambliss, Michelle [sic] Bachmann and their kind consistently manage to get elected to high positions authority -- Kochs or no Kochs -- unless the American people genuinely don't care what happens to this country or, for that matter, their own world anymore.
Thoughts, anyone?
