Prometheus 6

Look on the bright side

You have to wonder what things would look like at this point if there had been no Iraqi war.

Immediately after the SCOTUS Coup (that's what SC stands for now, sort of like GNU stands for GNU is Not Unix), the Republican extremists started jamming through as many of their programs as possible along strict party lines. The run-up to war delayed a lot of that; knowing what we know now, you gotta figure we'd have been having much of this discussion a year and a half ago. At that time, tax cuts were received wisdom; now it's questioned only because of the timing vis a vis paying for the war. Unemployment wasn't as bad as it is now, so it wouldn't have been as evident how damaging shredding the social safety net is to the average citizen. And though even now the conversation isn't taking place between as much of the populace as should be the case, think of how many fewer would be up on things before you had liberal blogs getting five and ten thousand unique visitors per day (I'm not sure how much right wing blogs actually spread their message as opposed to entrenching it because their message is pretty much all the liberal media has been transmitting).

posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/6/2003 10:30:02 AM |