While I hesitate to condemn the "liberal agenda" given that it's kind of a fudge word and that I'm more socially liberal than many, a friend's Facebook post prompted some commentary I thought worth sharing.
Original post from Person 1:"Now that the republicans have taken the teeth out of the liberal agenda it is important to remember that this was NOT a vote for the republican agenda. This was a vote for smaller government and against radical ideology."
Response from Person 2: I disagree that it was radical ideology to begin with. Person 2 then posted this link to a NY Times article.
My response (after a deep breath): So, lemme get this straight... The neocons/repubs, dems, and Obama demonstrated a clear intention and willingness to forcefully take over vast tracts of our economy instead of trustbusting and encouraging competition, helped uphold the inflated value of housing and college degrees both, are continuing to make it easy to borrow money at low interest rates to buy housing when that was one of the problems in the first place, are hamstringing incentives to save money by making sure returns on savings accounts and CD's continue to be held at historic lows via artificially low interest rates, fed the stock market aka big business billions in bailouts that were borrowed money in the first place, helped perpetuate businesses - especially banks - that can still destroy the economy if they go under, have pushed our yearly budget deficits to new heights (lows?), have kept us involved in two major Asian land wars, continue to support torture and extraordinary rendition and invoke "state secret" privileges to protect the government from accountability for it, and continue to reauthorize the erosion of civil liberties via the Patriot Act, and this is not only not radical ideology but also good somehow for capitalism and the average US citizen? You'll have to pardon my skepticism.
In other news, Four Loko, the caffeinated energy drink spiked with 12% alcohol by volume, is set to be banned. Thanks for protecting us from ourselves, government! How would we ever make decisions in our best interest without you?
Incidentally, this strikes me as more the M.O of fascists than of liberals.
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