Repugnant Republicanism

The key fronts in the present Assault on America:

• Kill the minimum wage: force down standards of living for people who work.
• Kill Social Security: pull the floor out so that people have to keep working forever.
• Establish risky government-mandated stock funds in order to drive up share prices and broker fee income.
• Limit the right of people to sue companies that hurt them... well, poor people anyway. You rich folks can go right on suing all you want.
• Kill personal bankruptcy: make sure quality of life, once on a downward spiral, continues that way. (Oh, and remember those government-mandated investments? Unlike SocSec, they can be taken away if you do manage to file.)
• Kill attempts to teach reality in schools: prohibit people from improving their place in life (indeed, spank anyone who learns at faster than the prescribed rate).
• Oh, and use public funds to promote the whole plan.

Now, it's preaching to the choir if I say, as I have, that "the world is a better place because of liberals". But did Bush voters really understand how much worse it would be because of conservatives?

(I'm not sure this post is entirely what I was striving for. I like it and it jibes with all my heated emotions, but I can't pin down exactly what's wrong with it. RaptorMagic: It's like Daily Kos without the clarity.)