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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Elizabeth Warren: "Why Aren't We Rebuilding America?"



Everybody reading this blog knows the answer, but it is still worthwhile saying it: We are not rebuilding America at a time when interest rates to pay for such rebuilding are at historical lows and unemployment among those who would undertake this rebuilding are at historical highs because the Republican Party would rather stand in the way of their own country's recovery than allow Democrats and our President to accomplish anything for which they would be given well deserved credit and respect and gratitude, perhaps also because they would rather cling to their macroeconomic illiteracy in the service of plutocrats, perhaps also because they would rather cling to their climate change denialism as the world on which they themselves depend to flourish and even survive erupts in catastrophes of global weirding than face their costly responsibilities, perhaps also because their cramped version of religious faith commits them to patriarchal domination of the women and hostility to queer folks who share their lives and lots, perhaps also because they are caught up in a terrified defensive belligerence in the face of a complex and uncertain world that makes them fantasize about streets filled with gunfire and jails full of inmates and history full of wars in which they are stronger than they are or surer than they are or safer than they are, perhaps also because they simply hate the consummately competent and accomplished and charming Black man in the White House right now because they are racists, whether they are willing to admit that to anybody else or even themselves, but whatever the variation in play, we are mostly not rebuilding America because of the ignorance and meanness and awfulness of Republicans, the single most dangerous organized force on the planet today, Republicans with whom we have been committed to share this nation of ours and over whom we must prevail if we -- and they, too -- are to keep this nation and live this life in this broken world for long.

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