With the nation’s economy
recovering strongly, the Republican party is doing everything it can to destroy
the legacy of the first black president.
They may succeed at gaining
control of both houses of the U.S. Congress next week, though the failure of
pollsters to recognize how things work now may limit the damage.
Cell phones are the hottest
commodity in the United States. Machines are set up at supermarkets to buy used
ones because so many people cannot afford to buy them at retail prices.
Many cannot get credit from
the providers of landline services.
They may well help facilitate
the American Spring that should be expected next year.
Just as President Barack
Obama hasn’t been able to budge Congress, even when he had a majority, the
limit edge Republicans get will only make their followers unhappy when they are
unable to deliver.
Once the dust clears, the GOP
doesn’t dare take away the hard-won abortion rights of women, voting rights of
minorities, same-sex marriage rights of gays or the impending legalization of
marijuana.
At the same time, the
economic recovery will continue. Voters who elected congressmen and women who
did everything they did to slow the growth likely will be questioning their
decisions.
President Barack Obama, in
his last years, may well step up the attack of the Republican-controlled banks
that created the recession. Prosecutions do not need Congressional help.
If the GOP tries to
intervene, more than it already has, to protect banks, they will be building
support for Clinton as the first woman president. If the will of women is ignored in this mid-term, they can be expected to be even more determined in 2016.
Thousands and thousands of
Americans who lost their homes know who was in power. They know money was spent
on a phony war in Iraq at the same time taxes for the wealthy were lowered.
Those who sought to bring
Obama down will have to ask themselves whether racism was involved.
Just as pollsters are likely
to learn that their methods exclude cell phones, at least to a certain extent,
the nation is learning, slowly but surely, that computers and software meant to
reduce their workload have enslaved them.
Science that is allowing
people to live longer, means they will be dealing with illnesses not covered by
their medical coverage. Can TV shows and NFL football cover all these
shortcomings?
In France, though it was only
apocryphal, royalty told the
poor to eat cake if they have no bread. In America it will be let me eat Big
Macs.
As the bloody French
revolutionary Robespierre said: "they (the rich) will conspire until hope is wrested from crime."
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